> and the times you find yourself "at the mercy" of the garbage collector is pretty damn frustrating.
You're still at the mercy of the malloc implementation. I've seen some fairly nasty behaviour involving memory leaks and weird pauses on free coming from a really hostile allocation pattern causing fragmentation in jemalloc's internal data.
You're still at the mercy of the malloc implementation. I've seen some fairly nasty behaviour involving memory leaks and weird pauses on free coming from a really hostile allocation pattern causing fragmentation in jemalloc's internal data.