• @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    It forces you to be careful in the way it wants you to be careful. Which is fine, but it makes it a strange beastie for anyone not used to it.

        • Kairos
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          2 months ago

          I feel like a garbage collector would be too much a performance hit for kernel stuff.

          • @InverseParallax
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            32 months ago

            2 things:

            1. It’s more the determinacy, a GC randomly fires up and your systems stops for some long amount of time. There are pauseless GCs but that’s a different nightmare.

            2. The kernel has things similar to GCs. They’re used for more specialized tasks, and some (like rcu) are absolute nightmares that have take decades to get working.