[platinumrad]

You seem to have a very low opinion of other people. If these miraculous collectors are so generally applicable, why are very smart people putting effort into things like Perseus?

[quotemstr]

Smart, honest people can have sincere and earnest disagreements. I believe the manual-memory-management people are mistaken. That's not to say they're stupid: it means I believe they're going down the wrong path, as smart people have done since time immemorial. I wish them all the best. That said, I must wonder what other innovations they reject if they insist that GC is unacceptable.

[lstodd]

We insist that GC is unacceptable only because we insist that uncontrollable latency is unacceptable.

[LoganDark]

The entire concept of a pauseless GC is that you have no uncontrollable latency. The GC can run on a background thread with zero stop-the-world.

Of course, this assumes you're in a preemptive environment with access to other threads, etc.