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by worewood 1339 days ago
> you need to know when to pause/unpause/prevent collection in the critical section.

That's his point. It's like saying humans can walk over a lake, as long as it's dry season and the lake is now 10 inches deep.

You can use garbage collected languages as long as you don't collect. (!?!?!)

I'm even more hardline. IMO everything time or life-critical should have static memory allocation, period.