for erlang, if you drop down to C you completely lose the garbage collector, but the docs for doing this show you how to set up a hook for your memory to be gar

for erlang, if you drop down to C you completely lose the garbage collector, but the docs for doing this show you how to set up a hook for your memory to be garbage collected just like any other first-class data in the system. If you're really responsible, it's possible to use the system allocator to inform the system about how much memory your allocations consume so that the memory pressure triggers have a correct accounting of how much memory is being used.