Finalizers will be non-deterministic when called as part of GC. One advantage of reference counting is that it is deterministic (and yes, this means that someti

Finalizers will be non-deterministic when called as part of GC. One advantage of reference counting is that it is deterministic (and yes, this means that sometimes freeing the last reference that's keeping a bunch of objects around will lead to a spike of extra deallocations. Guess what, that's what determinism is. It's implied by the need to free resources promptly.)