I stopped reading after this: After all, several factors key to the concept have indubitable costs – garbage collection is a must I'm trying to avoid bein

I stopped reading after this: After all, several factors key to the concept have indubitable costs – garbage collection is a must I'm trying to avoid being snarky, but all I really want to point out that if one doesn't understand the benefits and drawbacks of GC's, perhaps your opinion on performance of FP might not be very accurate.