> let me control the cycle sweeps and everybody's happy. Maybe you are happy, but 99.9% of people would probably be very unhappy with that solution. How would

> let me control the cycle sweeps and everybody's happy. Maybe you are happy, but 99.9% of people would probably be very unhappy with that solution. How would you even go about accomplishing that in a way that wouldn't make you lose your mind? I can only imagine the complexity of having to decide how many cycle sweeps need to be done every time I reduce the reference count on an object/struct. I also think the runtime performance of enforcing that kind of limit would out way any possible benefit.