alt Hacker NewsYou can always use things like arenas in C and get similar speed ups without GC overhead. If you know your memory lifetimes in advanced, avoiding granular malloc/free calls is pretty straightforward. A GC language doesn’t usually offer such options.
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foldr • yesterday at 9:16 AM
You can easily use arena allocation in a GCed language. With modern GCs there's not usually much performance benefit, so it tends to be limited to hot paths.
upboatsy • yesterday at 5:09 AM
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Sure it does, D just to give one example.