> Python somehow doesn't seem to have that happen nearly as often, for instance. It really is not a sarcastic comment, but Python is just not that fast to make

> Python somehow doesn't seem to have that happen nearly as often, for instance. It really is not a sarcastic comment, but Python is just not that fast to make GC the performance bottleneck in ordinary usage. It uses ref counting, which trades off performance to a more deterministic deallocation (plus there is also the GIL).