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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
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Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 10:07:48 +0200
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Hans Bezemer wrote:
> Dynamic memory allocation is a relatively expensive operation.

Many garbage collectors make allocation a quick pointer increment
operation.  Much like ALLOT Forth, actually.

> What I'm trying to say is: yes, all things automatic makes life a
> lot easier and for a lot of programs it doesn't matter a lot.  But
> you lose control

This sounds like a reasonable line of argument.