manual memory management

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 09:43:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> The technical solution you choose for GC imply some tradeoff, 
> and it amazing to see how the fact that you refcount or trace 
> don't matter that much. If you want a tracing collector to 
> behave more like reference counting, you'll need to add 
> barriers, so you ends up with the same cost to get the same 
> benefit.



A single 100-ms pause is not equivalent to 10,000  0.1-ms pauses 
for all apps.

Just because they have the "same cost" doesn't necessarily imply 
they're equal.