manual memory management

[dennis luehring]

Am 09.01.2013 11:09, schrieb Mehrdad:
> On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 10:07:42 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> Reference counting tend to create big pauses when deallocating
>> as objects tends to dies in group.
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> I don't get it... it's slower to deallocate a bunch of objects
> together with refcounting than to deallocate all of them
> individually over a longer period of time?
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could be - think of an large hierarchy of objects which tends to take 
some time to deconstruct ... a background gc could be better for your 
application speed in this situation - by the cost of smaller pause and 
more resource usage

or better - what is the real reason for Java and C# for using garbage 
collectors if ref-counting will be always better (except cyclic stuff)?