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"C also doesn't provide latency guarantees, as the same pathological programs can exist in C as well."

But you have to code them. They are predictable, or you let them in by allowing data structures to grow indefinitely

With C you can make latency guarantees. You can write code that does not have such guarantees but it is your choice

With GC you are not in control so there are fewer choices. You will not be able to make guarantees.

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> With GC you are not in control so there are fewer choices. You will not be able to make guarantees.

Not true. Hard and soft realtime GCs with sub-microsecond latencies exist. Latency is a property of a runtime, not of manual vs. automatic storage reclamation.

That is a misunderstanding of latency.

"Very fast" is still latency.

"No latency" is a fiction. The only question of any relevance is how much latency is tolerable for a given domain. And describing latency in worst-case timings is standard, so I understand latency just fine thanks.