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nromiun 4 days ago

Like writing only in assembly is "proper" programming? Using more memory and CPU time than necessary for convenience?

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tcfhgj 4 days ago | parent [-]

systems programming languages compile right down to machine code

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nromiun 4 days ago | parent [-]

Both borrow checker and GC use malloc/free internally as well. According to you there is no difference between the two.

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tcfhgj 4 days ago | parent [-]

yes, there is: GC will not use stack allocation and it will add another layer of memory management resulting in significant memory overhead (runtime overhead)

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nromiun 4 days ago | parent [-]

Of course they do. For example C#, D, Nim etc all use stack allocation with their GC.

Not to mention Rust also allocates dynamic objects on the heap. So not sure what is your point.

	▲	tcfhgj 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The language may allow it, but it's not GC managed then. My point is runtime overhead. In C# structs and their refs (including a simple borrow checker to detect invalid ref use) were introduced to escape GC management und reduce it's runtime impact on the programs