pjmlp's point is that GC can be the default, and manual memory management can be used where necessary. It's essentially the Pareto principle. Most of your garb

pjmlp's point is that GC can be the default, and manual memory management can be used where necessary. It's essentially the Pareto principle. Most of your garbage is generated by a minority of your program. So only small bits of your program need to be optimised to not use the GC.