Smart pointers instead of GC?

[deadalnix]

On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 17:18:52 UTC, Thiez wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 12:32:01 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>> Most GC language lack proper memory management, and sometime 
>> have design choice that are a nightmare for the GC (java have 
>> no value type for instance).
>
> Surely Java's primitive types (byte, short, int, long, float, 
> double, boolean, and char) count as value types?

Yes, but they are irrelevant for the GC.