C is fastest (was: McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System)

[Matthew Godycki]

> If he was allocating strings in C using malloc(), or using "new" in
> C++, THE SAME PROBLEM WOULD HAVE ARISEN, and for fairly much the same
> reasons.
>
> The problem isn't that "garbage collection is bad," it is that
> programmers who don't pay enough attention to their systems to have
> either:
> a) interest, or
> b) ability
> to profile and address the bottlenecks of the systems that they build
> shouldn't be let near anything "going to production."

Christopher, you hit the nail on the head.  At the end of the day, developers
write/design good or bad code.  While it's true that certain technologies become
more accessible to poorer developers because they abstract some details
out (as is the case in this garbage collection example) I personally would rather
not stop the evolution of technologies to make my job easier because lousy
programmers may not use it the right way.

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