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Posted Sep 6, 2007 17:03 UTC (Thu) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122)
In reply to: Taste by lysse
Parent article: LinuxConf.eu: Documentation and user-space API design

> It's available online: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/appel87garbage.html

Thanks. Just read it briefly. I would not agree that GC is faster than stack allocation because of that, though. I echo Stroustrup's joke that if you have that much memory you are supposed to use them to prevent any process from getting into the swap. =)


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Posted Sep 7, 2007 23:48 UTC (Fri) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]

Fair enough, but his opinion was peer-reviewed. :)

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Posted Sep 8, 2007 6:41 UTC (Sat) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122) [Link]

> Fair enough, but his opinion was peer-reviewed. :)

Peer review process seldom block correct but practically irrelevant work. :)

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