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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:06:40 +0000 (UTC)
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Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote:

(snip)
> My car was $800.00 less expensive with a manual transmission than with  
> an automatic transmission. Manual gets better fuel economy. It gives better 
> control over the vehicle, especially in inclement weather. You can drop to 
> a lower gear and accelerate to pass more readily.

A little off topic, but...

Rumors are that automatics are now good enough to, in most cases,
get as good or better fuel economy. The computer is better at
figuring out what gear to be in and when than most, if not all,
drivers. 

I am not so sure about the inclement weather or passing.
I probably believe that with enough practice you do better,
but without, which is most people, worse. (Passing is almost
a lost art with the number of four lane or more freeways.)

If you don't have enough practice, having to shift while
passing can be distracting from watching for cars coming
the other way.

-- glen