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> I'm wondering if one day memory will be so cheap, we won't need garbage collection anymore.

I believe we would need infinite memory for that. Cheap extensive memory is still finite.

Only for long-running processes

So, just the most important ones, then. In a sense, processes are just a form of arena allocation. They don't eliminate the need for memory management; they are memory management (among many other things).

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