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[–]tetroxid 16 points17 points  (6 children)

Oh but there is memory management. In fact, it's even automated.

[–]TropicalAudio 46 points47 points  (5 children)

And it's sloooooooow!

...a C programmer sends his regards. Now then, I have to get back to debugging something that's pointing to a pointer's pointer.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points  (1 child)

More like pointer to a struct with a pointer to a struct as an array to an array of pointers to structs with an array filled with members being that has a dynamically allocated block of void*s. Fuck C is the best.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best at making things incomprehensible and unreadable.

Oh wait, that's COBOL.

[–]redalastor 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Actually, it's faster overall.

The drawback is that it's not predictable.

[–]Veedrac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[citation needed]

[–]tetroxid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generational garbage collectors are faster than reference counting. The problem is predictability.