Re: Storage management, was Compiler writers will love this language

> I'm not sure about the exact reasons. I could imagine that it's just
> a case of "reference counting is beneath contempt", or a case of
> "mark-and-sweep was measured to be just as fast as reference
> counting", or simply "we want to avoid the analysis overhead of
> assigning ownership to objects when writing our run-time system".


I guess it's the cost of the counter-per-object (such languages tend to use
a lot of very small objects, such as cons cells). Of course there are ways
to work around that as well, but a simple GC is pretty easy to code up.




                Stefan

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