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Hidden Overheads (2023)

ne day I was sitting around thinking about performance, when a thought popped into my head – how can it be that systems programmers shun higher-level languages due to their hidden performance costs when even C has plenty of areas where something expensive can happen without much ceremony or acknowledgement from the language? To answer that question we first need to take a look at some of the hidden costs present in higher-level languages. Garbage collector pauses I’d say there is a general consensus among programmers that garbage-collected languages are not an option for systems programming.

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