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I distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my Symbolics locked up while it completed a GC.

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I distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my PC locked up while it completed a Win32 load.

Can't help but recall this quote:

"Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer -- it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. "

-- from "Real Programmers Don't use Pascal"

GCs are better these days. And you're much more likely to wait on IO anyway, at every granularity level in the system.

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I distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my PC locked up while it completed a Win32 load.

Can't help but recall this quote:

"Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer -- it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. "

-- from "Real Programmers Don't use Pascal"

GCs are better these days. And you're much more likely to wait on IO anyway, at every granularity level in the system.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse