The GC (agian)

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 13:46:28 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> I get the feeling that some ppl still believe the GC sneaks in 
> some backdoor and says hello

Well, it "does", unless you only use the GC for initialization, 
in which case you are good.

The GC also has to scan non-GC memory if that memory can point 
back to GC-memory.

If you want to avoid this, you basically have to reason about 
lifetimes with no compiler support at all.

At that point manual memory management with RAII/RC becomes less 
brittle and the GC becomes more of a liability than an advantage.