> GC pauses wouldn't really be a problem if development in the past twenty five years had been focused on hardware assisted incremental garbage collection Hard

> GC pauses wouldn't really be a problem if development in the past twenty five years had been focused on hardware assisted incremental garbage collection Hardware assisted GC isn't free. It comes at a large cost of silicon* and power. And makes a lot of assumptions and puts a lot of restrictions on your GC. And it still doesn't solve the caching problems related to automatic memory management. * The silicon has to come out of the die budget somewhere. likely decreasing performance on other operations. Or removing other special purpose instructions altogether (SIMD?)