Jonathan Blow
On The Metal
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Java Programming - Memory Management Is Impossible
Java programmers spent all the time in memory management trying to outsmart the garbage collector or feed the garbage collector. After you've done all those things you still can't really prevent the garbage collector from kicking in, he says. "You never really can especially if you use a library somewhere that you don't control right" It's actually worse because it happens in games all the time too and people don't like again there's not the adult supervision to say okay wait it maybe was a good of an idea we don't have anyone standing around doing this kind of thing.
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