> Once you lose garbage collection does .net give you anything over C++? You don't need to lose garbage collection altogether. There's a middle ground here: if

> Once you lose garbage collection does .net give you anything over C++? You don't need to lose garbage collection altogether. There's a middle ground here: if you can switch to manual buffer management for the most GC-heavy, speed-critical code, that still lets you use GC with impunity everywhere else.