They do that in other places.

As I heard the tale, on the Standard Missile, they don't recirculate the hydraulic fluid, they just spit out as the missile flies. It's a wonderful engineering solution.

I would call that a region-based memory allocator... Only that it has a single region, ever.

It’s pretty standard in many places I think - the point here is not the null gc but rather exact memory requirements being proved statically.

This is one of my favourite anecodtes to tell peers and colleagues because it's important when understanding buisness case/needs against programming. We all want to make perfect software, but it isn't always neccessary.

now that is what i call the ultimate in garbage collection technology