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Subject:  GC is overrated
Date:  2008-04-29 12:47:58
From:  aberrant
Response to: GC is overrated


GC eliminates an entire class of memory leaks. All you are left with are situation where you have a hard reference to an object that isn't needed. In C and C++ the pointer to the object/data can get lost. and then there is no way to free that memory. Java de-allocation is significantly less complicated.

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