Modern Java and .NET VMs still have latency issues under GC pressure that were equally visible in Emacs Lisp a quarter century ago.
Aren't you jumping to conclusions a little bit too fast? That there are still issues in some applications means all the work on Garbage Collection was wasted? I would like to remind you that modern GC-ed Java programs are often close in performance to C++ code with hand-written memory management, this clearly was not "visible in Emacs Lisp a quarter century ago".
Aren't you jumping to conclusions a little bit too fast? That there are still issues in some applications means all the work on Garbage Collection was wasted? I would like to remind you that modern GC-ed Java programs are often close in performance to C++ code with hand-written memory management, this clearly was not "visible in Emacs Lisp a quarter century ago".