>>41. In what language? And how do I use libs which use GC? With pain, that's how.
2. But the overhead of GC will not go anywhere, which means less things can be held in memory at the same time. Read the paragraph on garbage collection here:
http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/and don't miss the graph:
http://sealedabstract.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2013-05-14-at-10.15.29-PM.png3. By not avoiding circular references, I make way for lots of more algorithms and data structures. Even my Cormen "Intro to Algorithms" has lots of stuff that would be a pain in a GC environ.