• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month 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.

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          1 month ago

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

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            1 month 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.