Re: Garbage Collection - The Trash Begins To Pile Up

From:
"Nevin :-] Liber" <nevin@eviloverlord.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
29 Dec 2006 19:31:00 -0500
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In article <1167363058.316895.85110@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com>,
 "Le Chaud Lapin" <jaibuduvin@gmail.com> wrote:

See again the problems:


Let's compare them with the problems of using a regular malloc/free heap:

    * An OutOfMemoryException is thrown.


A std::bad_alloc exception is thrown.

    * The process is using too much memory for no obvious reason that
you can determine.


The process is using too much memory for no obvious reason that you can
determine.

    * It appears that garbage collection is not cleaning up objects
fast enough.


Nothing can clean up the objects.

    * The managed heap is overly fragmented.


The malloc/free heap is overly fragmented.

    * The application is excessively using the CPU.


The application is excessively using the CPU.

Any engineer who designs a program that contains these problems in such
significant quantities as to warrant an article being written about it
should be ashamed of him/herself.


So you are basically arguing that we shouldn't be using a heap *at all*;
no polymorphism, all lifetimes have to be LIFO, etc.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

Reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/CLRInsideOut/default.aspx


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