> With reference counting there are no pauses... Same with GC. "Stop the world" may be a characteristic of a simple GC, but it's entirely possible to have GC t

> With reference counting there are no pauses... Same with GC. "Stop the world" may be a characteristic of a simple GC, but it's entirely possible to have GC that works by "coloring" objects. > In a garbage collected language you need to explicitly release your resources. (IE, the Dispose pattern that's common in C#) You only need to implement IDisposable if you are dealing with unmanaged resources (ie. non-GC objects). But it's the same with C/C++: you have to call `free()` or `delete`; The difference is that managed resources are auto-released for you.