> This is because the garbage collector tends to have preallocated memory lying around, This is an allocator feature independent of garbage collection; jemallo

> This is because the garbage collector tends to have preallocated memory lying around, This is an allocator feature independent of garbage collection; jemalloc does this for example. GCd languages have the potential to do this better since they can do additional analysis whilst tracing for little additional cost, but non-GCd languages can still benefit from this.