The other poster in this thread is advocating for GC as an alternative to C++ smart pointers in cases where the overhead of these is unacceptable, so giving up

The other poster in this thread is advocating for GC as an alternative to C++ smart pointers in cases where the overhead of these is unacceptable, so giving up an entire processor/core to run GC would be a non-starter (in this performance-driven use case).