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About the disadvantages of GC

From	Sky89 <Sky89@sky68.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming.threads
Subject	About the disadvantages of GC
Date	2018-05-02 17:35 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Hello,

About the disadvantages of GC:

"Perhaps the most significant problem is that programs that rely on 
garbage collectors often exhibit poor locality (interacting badly with 
cache and virtual memory systems), occupy more address space than the 
program actually uses at any one time, and touch otherwise idle pages. 
These may combine in a phenomenon called thrashing, in which a program 
spends more time copying data between various grades of storage than 
performing useful work. They may make it impossible for a programmer to 
reason about the performance effects of design choices, making 
performance tuning difficult. They can lead garbage-collecting programs 
to interfere with other programs competing for resources"


Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.

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