Refs might be but they aren't inherent to GC, you can have Refs without GC. I would love to see a benchmark of GC vs non-GC using the same compiler and languag

Refs might be but they aren't inherent to GC, you can have Refs without GC. I would love to see a benchmark of GC vs non-GC using the same compiler and language for an accurate comparison. Probably also GC vs non-GC naive vs non-GC optimized.