> Thus, users of modern non-GC languages do not experience the pauses seen in GC languages /doubt Once you're facing, for example, the deallocation of an enti

> Thus, users of modern non-GC languages do not experience the pauses seen in GC languages /doubt Once you're facing, for example, the deallocation of an entire tree that you own and that's going out of scope, your pause is unbounded. Compared to that, a GC'd language could delay the deallocation, or even in case of stuff like C4 have a dedicated thread deal with it. Sure, you can always write code in a way that avoids this, but non-consing is also an option for many of the GC'd languages (at least the more advanced ones, like Common Lisp).