[IshKebab]

That's why I said random pauses.

RAII can also cause pauses when freeing large object graphs. It's not unique to RC. However in practice it's usually much less of an issue than GC pauses. It's only been an issue for me once in my entire career.

[il-b]

In C++ one can combine RAII with allocators in order to avoid calling alloc/frees in latency critical paths.