In many cases Garbage Collection _does_ perform better than C's static allocation. This advantage is over and above the important service of avoiding dangling references. Most C/C++ programmers are quite amazed by this -- as if finding out about sex for the first time after being kept ignorant about it by their parents...
-- hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker) on comp.lang.lisp 8/08/94 14:13:45