”I have no idea how you've come to that conclusion.” 30 years of experience. ”For the vast majority of memory allocation in any GC'd language I can think of,

”I have no idea how you've come to that conclusion.” 30 years of experience. ”For the vast majority of memory allocation in any GC'd language I can think of, you spend zero time thinking about memory management 98% of the time.” No, you think about 98% of the code 0% of the time. The remaining 2% ends up causing so many problems that your amortized time spent on memory management is the same.