On: Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic ...

[mirekrusin]

Of course, what is deterministic is deterministic, if you use allocations based on nondeterministic random, then you can't see deterministic allocations - I think this is obvious and doesn't have be to spelled out.

With gc deterministic runtime creates nondeterministic deallocations.

With arc deterministic runtime creates deterministic deallocations - reproducible behavior that can be profiled and allows you to work on optimizing it.

[pjmlp → mirekrusin]

How it is reproducible if you cannot control your input data?

There are GC languages like D, where you can have C++ like RAII deterministic deallocations.

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