[longcommonname]

Theres many applications where any unexpected garbage collection pause is absolutely detrimental. Even pauses when the kernel cleans up memory cache during a Malloc are detrimental.

Garbage collection is great until then.

[apta]

Your post doesn't contradict the post you're replying to. There are obviously many cases where it is no desirable to have GC, but there are even more where GC does just fine.