> performance tends to be a major objective My comment is about the thinking behind making this decision, C++ or not. It wasn't "is it speculative that GC wil

> performance tends to be a major objective My comment is about the thinking behind making this decision, C++ or not. It wasn't "is it speculative that GC will add a cost?" or something like that. I wonder how much of the thinking that leads one to conclude "I need so much performance here that I can't afford a managed language", for example, is real carefully thought vs. speculative.