Disable GC entirely

[Peter Alexander]

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.