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Very nicely stated. Being able to more easily reason about code, as enabled by GC, allows the kinds of large refactorings and algorithmic optimizations that people working on C codebases tend to shy away from.

That said, I've definitely seen use cases, particularly in games, where memory pools are clearly optimal. And certainly the deterministic nature of such pools has advantages as well.




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