>Its as much work to use a garbage collector efficiently as it is to allocate and delete your own memory. Typically I just use weak references or weak referenc

>Its as much work to use a garbage collector efficiently as it is to allocate and delete your own memory. Typically I just use weak references or weak reference sets/dicts/whatever. That's python for you though. I presume you mean it's just as hard in some specific language, not just as hard in general.