Bulldozer00's Blog

In many of his (terrific) talks and lectures, Herb Sutter often says that “always on garbage collection“, “default virtual dispatch“, and “metadata” are valid reasons as to why managed language programs written in C# and Java are typically slower and bigger than native languages like C++ and C. I understand the first two issues, but not the “metadata” argument. Thus, I asked Herb to “splain dis to me Lucy“.

Here’s my question and Herb’s gracious answer: