Disable GC entirely

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 7 April 2013 at 22:59:37 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 April 2013 at 22:33:04 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 08.04.2013 00:27, schrieb Timon Gehr:
>>> 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.
>
> Mutable state is essentially an optimisation that reuses the 
> same memory for a new value (as opposed to heap allocating the 
> new value). In that sense, mutable state is manual memory 
> management because you have to manage what has access to that 
> memory.

If you as a developer don't call explicitly any language API to 
acquire/release resource and it is actually done on your behalf 
by the runtime, it is not manual memory management.