On 3/15/2012 2:09, Invisible wrote:
> least with manual memory management, one thread doesn't usually block other
> threads from running.

You would be surprised at the number of implementations of malloc() and 
free() that assume you're single-threaded and require locks.

Also, in a language that supports threads in the first place (like Erlang), 
the heaps are per-thread, so that's OK.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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