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It's more like this: C diehards: Pauses are bad, we need manual memory management. Everyone else: Does not have manual memory management.

• moonchild 5y ago
  > Does not have manual memory management That is a misunderstanding. If you would like to avoid pauses in c, you must be careful about how you allocate, what you put where, &c; you cannot simply use malloc and free. Similarly, if you would like to avoid pauses in a gc language, you must be careful about how you allocate, what you put where, &c; you cannot simply allocate. These techniques are actionable in any language. Java 'has' automatic memory management, but it also 'has' manual memory management (if you implement it).
  • voidnullnil 5y ago
    Not without relying on implementation details.
    • moonchild 5y ago
      ? no In almost any language with automatic memory management, I can portably make my own freelists, regions, temporary (reused) buffers, ...