Freeing of memory (garbage collection)

[Daniel White]

> That would be a bad idea.  Then how would you do manual memory
> management in the few cases that absolutely require it?

Two ways. Either:

a: being able to lock the variable so that the garbage collector
can't touch it until you unlock it.

b: Using a slightly different version of malloc (say 'mallocl') which again,
makes it shielded against the garbage collector's wrath.