Re: How do you choose your programming language ?

On Nov 23, 2005, at 16:06, Nadav Har'El wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005, Tzahi Fadida wrote about "RE: [hackers-il]  
> How do you choose your programming language ?":
>> If you really don't like JAVA performance there are native  
>> compilers now that should
>> work most of the time, hopefully it will tell you when it can't :)  
>> but I wouldn't like to
>> find it out after distribution.
>
> If you'll read my post, you'll see that the things that bother me  
> cannot be
> fixed by a "compiler". The entire notion of "fill the entire memory  
> with

Native compiler here as in, compile to native code, not JVM code, I  
believe.

> temporary objects like there's no tomorrow, because we have an  
> efficient
> algorithm to clear that garbage later" in Java is what causes the  
> horrible
> memory usage issues, and I don't see how any compiler can solve this.
>

Actually, the Java spec says nothing whatsoever about what sort of  
implementation the GC should have; its only GC "contract" is, IIRC,  
no object gets finalized more than once.
You're free to free (as it were)  objects at the end of every method,  
if you so choose.

   Zohar



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