Comment by pjmlp
13 hours ago
Agreed, however there is also a reason why the best ones also pack multiple GC algorithms, like in Java and .NET, because one approach doesn't fit all workloads.
13 hours ago
Agreed, however there is also a reason why the best ones also pack multiple GC algorithms, like in Java and .NET, because one approach doesn't fit all workloads.
Then there’s perl, which doesn’t free at all.
Perl frees memory. It uses refcounting, so you need to break heap cycles or it will leak.
(99% of the time, I find this less problematic than Java’s approach, fwiw).
Freedom is overrated... :P
doesn't java also?
I heard that was a common complaint for minecraft
Minecraft for somewhat silly reasons was largely stuck using Java8 for ~a decade longer than it should have which meant that it was using some fairly outdated GC algorithms.
What do you mean - if Java returns memory to the OS? Which one - Java heap of the malloc/free by the JVM?
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