Comment Re:C/C++ faster but produces more bugs (Score 1) 670
i strenuously disagree that memory management is a boon to developer productivity.
in every single case where i've seen serious memory requirements meet garbage collection,
not only has performance suffered, but developers spend scads of time banging their heads against the black box of the GC.
i'm thinking specifically AS3 and Java.
imo GC is a lose-lose proposition:
either 1) you have serious memory requirements, in which case GC just gets in your way and you have to expend serious effort Working Around it,
or 2) you don't have serious memory requirements, in which case who gives a shit: leak the stuff. virtual memory is essentially infinite.
the only situation where the GC really helps are in long-running but memory-unintensive applications.