The purpose of D (GC rant, long)

[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I think another issue is that garbage collection *can* cause a 
> noticeable stutter in user applications which pay no attention to memory 
> management, and it's easy for someone to point at that hitch and 
> proclaim that garbage collection itself is slow.  People seem to like 
> the straw man argument for some reason.

You know it's a straw man when they also say that malloc/free or C++ 
new/delete have predictable latency. They don't. People who write code 
that *requires* predictable latency preallocate all their data.