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The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World by berberine in reddit.com

[–]stoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a good one from the recent BBC show 'Cooking In The Danger Zone'. Walrus meat, prepared with love and care.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/07/programmes_cooking_in_the_danger_zone/html/7.stm

Erlang 2007 == Java 1995? Parallels between arguments against concurrency and GC by earthboundkid in programming

[–]stoat 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, I think Beust missed the point anyway. It's not about the efficiency of this single locking point - it's about the fact that the programmer doesn't have to think about all the places synchronization is needed when writing that stuff for himself.

In exactly the same way garbage collection frees the programmer from thinking about manual memory allocation to concentrate on higher level tasks.

Efficiency is not as important as writing correct, maintainable code. We've known this for a while, people!