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- From: nshaylor@tcp.co.uk (Nik Shaylor - Florence - Italy)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 14:47:45 GMT
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- On Sun, 17 Mar 1996 19:22:20 -0500, "Dana P'Simer, Jr."
- <danap@mindspring.com> wrote:
-
- >[...] but you still have the problem of this Garbage
- >Collection which, while it might be VERY efficient as garbage collection goes,
- > will certainly be a performance problem
- >compared to well written C++ programs.
-
- If you do not not use the new operator (a lot) do you still make
- garbage? I presume that the stack frames are not allocated from the
- heap.
-
- If that is true is it not the case that a gc would be faster than
- malloc/free?
-
- Nik Shaylor?
-