At least for my use scenario in embedded systems, performance is not necessarily worse with GC and nondeterminism is not a showstopper either. The problem is a

At least for my use scenario in embedded systems, performance is not necessarily worse with GC and nondeterminism is not a showstopper either. The problem is avoidable by proactively minimizing allocations in the hot paths or arranging 'critical sections' that disable GC temporarily. The deal-breaker is the memory footprint.