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by Peaker 4538 days ago
Most parts of most programs aren't performance centric and can take a hit. As evidence, see all the Ruby/Python programs that have constant penalties that go up to 200 in many cases.
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eonil 4537 days ago
I was talking about pretty realtime applications like games. I'm sorry that was unclear.
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Peaker 4537 days ago
In such applications, I wouldn't even want to get the GC penalty, so I'd be constrained to a very small set of languages.
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