5 Feb
2022
5 Feb
'22
12:54 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 3:20 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
I'm sure kernels with GC are on their way. I think they already exist in
research contexts. As for games, the problem seems to be that the market
will not pay enough for hardware to do a good job. so the attitude is "So
what if it crashes, it's just a dumb game."
The last C program I worked on was an interpreter for the Joy language. It
had a precise GC for objects, but strings were a mess. I added libgc and
ripped out all the half-assed solutions. If I had to write C today, I'd
write it with libgc.
Garbage
collector is cool but actually it prevents you from writing
kernel or performance critical code, e.g. games.