Re: [boost] Review Wizard report for December 2009

Subject: Re: [boost] Review Wizard report for December 2009
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-11 18:05:35

Thorsten Ottosen a écrit :

> I would say one of the disadvantages of manual/smart ptr memory 
> management is slowness. GC, OTOH is fast. To qoute Herb Sutter:
> "The only thing making .net run faster is GC".

It's not GC that makes it run faster, simply the allocation strategy 
languages with GCs happen to use.
You can have "manual" memory management "as fast as GC". It's just that 
it has other bad properties, such as requiring more memory than it 
really needs to operate well: which is why it's not the default strategy 
implementers happen to use in a language like C++.