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There are a lot of developers -- a huge amount, actually -- who believe memory management is too important to leave to an automated GC algorithm. That, and the

There are a lot of developers -- a huge amount, actually -- who believe memory management is too important to leave to an automated GC algorithm. That, and the memory requirements of a particular application might require something different than a GC provides.

ktRolster 10y ago
If your algorithm is such that everything can be placed on the stack then GC gets you nothing.
- hellofunk 10y ago
  A lot of GC languages don't give you access to the stack, though, all objects live in the heap.