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blackhole
on April 10, 2012
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PHP: A fractal of bad design
Meanwhile, people still manage to write memory leaks in garbage collected languages specifically designed to not leak memory.
Retric
on April 11, 2012
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GC is not about preventing memory leaks, it's there to make managing memory easier not automatic. One of it's biggest advantages is the ability to deal with memory fragmentation which is ridiculously hard to do well in C++ style languages.
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