I've never done this kind of programming around GC, is manual memory management in a garbage collected language any better than manual memory management in a la

I've never done this kind of programming around GC, is manual memory management in a garbage collected language any better than manual memory management in a language without GC? >I'm not so sure there are applications which simply cannot tolerate garbage collection. From your post, it sounds like "tolerating garbage collection" is the same as making sure it never ever happens. The application clearly doesn't tolerate GC, the programmer tolerates the language enough to bend over backwards to avoid one of its central features.