Conclusion
l C++ forces user to take care of
Optimization hints (inline, virtual)
Memory allocation
l Price to pay is:
crashes, dangling pointers, endless debugging
Memory leaks – objects that are never deleted
Corruption of clean OO style because of need for objects
to co-operate on object ownership/destruction
l Java VM’s do an increasingly good job of:
Memory allocation
Code optimization
l Without programmer having to worry about it
l In a totally safe (crash resistant) way
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