> no language with GC gets closer than a 2-3x the time of a non-GC language This is wrong. At least, it is not true generally. I wrote a 1:1 port of my C++ che

> no language with GC gets closer than a 2-3x the time of a non-GC language This is wrong. At least, it is not true generally. I wrote a 1:1 port of my C++ chess engine, and after a bit of fiddling with compiler options the Nim version was faster. In fact, when using a delayed garbage collector, the program was even faster than when using reference counting.