the twist with gc or refcounting is that you actually still need to think about memory management.. in many ways, unfortunately, it becomes harder to control.

the twist with gc or refcounting is that you actually still need to think about memory management.. in many ways, unfortunately, it becomes harder to control. An advantage of user managed memory is that you always need to think about it, with every line you write so if there is an issue, it will become apparent rather quickly. Buffer overruns, however, are never much fun.. and largely avoided with auto memory management so it's clearly useful in most cases. At least with most of boring software that I write.