>> My opinions might be less sour if I had more experience with compacting GCs I have quite a bit of experience with the GC in .NET. For projects that deal wit

>> My opinions might be less sour if I had more experience with compacting GCs I have quite a bit of experience with the GC in .NET. For projects that deal with large data structures, the GC is something that you are always thinking about though it's behavior is conceptually transparent. I think I would ultimately prefer a more explicit approach.