Re: Euphoria vs. other programming languages
- Posted by Critic Mar 04, 2009
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mattlewis said...
Is your guess based on anything, or just random? You don't offer any reasons to back it up.
As if EU's doc is backed up... But anyway: http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html Lispworks has a generational GC. I think Visualworks (Smalltalk) has something similar.
mattlewis said...
These criticisms of GC should definitely be aimed at things like Java or Microsoft's CLR/Mono. Java does allocate large chunks of memory up front. Both of these also do periodic garbage collection, which can cause pauses in the execution. So you're correct that it could be more up to date.
Quite true, at least for Java (I don't know about CLR). But it is a bit like saying "EU fragments memory, because it has no copying GC".
