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		detrino on Aug 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++11 FQA anyone? Garbage collection does not offer better throughput than manual memory management, in fact it tends to need ~6x the memory to equal it[1]. [1] http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/04-17.pdf

loup-vaillant on Aug 28, 2014 [–]

I'd be wary of that paper: of the 5 garbage collectors they have tested, only one appears to be generational. That makes me doubt they used sufficiently state of the art garbage collection.

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