Disable GC entirely

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/08/2013 12:33 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 08.04.2013 00:27, schrieb Timon Gehr:
>> On 04/07/2013 11:11 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Why should maintaining mutable state be like manual memory management,
>>> if you have in place the required GC/reference counter helpers?
>>>
>>> ...
>>
>> Every time a variable is reassigned, its old value is destroyed.
>
> I do have functional and logic programming background and still fail to
> see how that is manual memory management.
>
>
> --
> Paulo

What would be a feature that clearly distinguishes the two?