Date: | Mon May 10 12:51:41 1999 | |
Subject: | Re: Garbage collection | |
From: | Robin Popplestone | |
Volume-ID: | 990510.04 |
Incidentally, garbage collection, because it compacts the heap, has the potential for creating programs that run -faster- than C, since in today's machines locality is everything. Even a cache-miss will cost quite a lot of missed-instructions, while a page-fault takes something near eternity to remedy. RJP |