[Shootout-list] Garbage Collection to improve efficiency was Re: Stuff

[Shae Matijs Erisson]

Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> writes:

> I certainly do not agree. A garbage collector is certainly slower than a
> simple hand-written reference counter. And I don't see why a garbage
> collector would make an algorithm implementation faster !!!!

There's also region allocation which is faster than manual step-by-step
allocation because you can prove at compile time that a large contiguous chunk
of memory can be deallocated all at once when a certain computation finishes.
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