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Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

From:
Piers Cawley
Date:
January 29, 2001 14:12
Subject:
Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/
Message ID:
m33de2qa4r.fsf@iest.bofh.org.uk
"Branden" <branden_p6@hotmail.com> writes:
> Of course, C++ has no GC, which is a good thing, but you can always
> fake it with Refcounts, which is much more efficient, and easily
> feasable with C++. 

Err... current research shows that the refcount approach is one of the
slowest forms of GC, and it doesn't even do the job properly.

-- 
Piers




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