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Does kotlin native have a garbage collector?

we also have the ability to manage the memory manually, if we really value the performance of a part of code? That's kind of what `memScoped` is?

spierce7: `memScoped` is mostly to manage memory passed to C libraries, where instead of automated MM user is sure that by contract of an API memory is not needed after leaving certain block

Partially, because `memScoped` manages raw memory, not object memory

So we don't have the option of manually managing memory for performance, or is that something we shouldn't be thinking about?

Well, for cases where large data comes in form of raw data (audio, videos, images) we can use manual memory mgmt for that data. For objects it is smth to think about.

fwiw, i think the current setup is amazing, and manually managing objects isn't really necessary

the only thing that'd be great is stack allocation for short lived local objects with scape analysis

if you add MM for objects, i think code sharing between JVM Kotlin and Kotlin Native may suffer