to a good approximation every memory management problem i've had involved a garbage collector, a reference count or a fancy stl pointer type. without these i h

to a good approximation every memory management problem i've had involved a garbage collector, a reference count or a fancy stl pointer type. without these i have very few leaks or problems - and when i do they are trivial to find and fix. i see the advantage for RAD, but for performance and memory critical code these things are actually dangerous and stupid imo. measurably so...