> The reality is you still have to free resources, so it's not like the garbage collector is doing work that doesn't need to be done. This is quite blatantly f

> The reality is you still have to free resources, so it's not like the garbage collector is doing work that doesn't need to be done. This is quite blatantly false. The reality is that every single time your GC pass traverses an object but doesn't free it, it's wasting time doing work that didn't need to be done.