It seems to me like the endgame of most memory management problems is static buffers and pools for speed/low fragmentation, and GC for everything else; manual a

It seems to me like the endgame of most memory management problems is static buffers and pools for speed/low fragmentation, and GC for everything else; manual allocations are just too fiddly for most coders to favor them for optimization. Disclaimer: I've mostly worked in GC environments.