[LucaSas]

This pops up again from time to time, I think what people should take away from this is that garbage collection is not just what you see in Java and other high level languages.

There are a lot of strategies to apply garbage collection and they are often used in low level systems too like per-frame temporary arenas in games or in short lived programs that just allocate and never free.

[asveikau]

Once you set a limit like this, though, it's brittle, and your code becomes less maintainable or flexible in the face of change. That is why a general purpose strategy is good to use.