“It’s a common belief that garbage collection means inferior performance, because everyone who has gotten into programming in the last decade regards manual storage management as a fact of life, and totally discounts the effort and performance impact of doing everything by hand.”
jwz knows more than me, you, oh and you over there as well, about garbage collection. Not surprisingly, he points out that GCs based on automatic reference counting suck. The piece is 8 years old, and makes most GC haters I know of look 8 years old.