>> consumes a lot of computational power—up to 10 percent or more of the total time a CPU spends on an application.
I stopped reading there. 10% is nothing. For such a useful feature as automatic garbage collection, for the vast majority of applications, I'd gladly give away 50% of the CPU.
In terms of ensuring code correctness and robustness, if I had to choose static typing or automatic garbage collection, I'd pick garbage collection every time. It adds a lot of value in terms of development efficiency and code simplicity.
This is surprising considering that SQLite is very heavily tested. It shows that ridiculous amounts of testing with 100% coverage of every code path and "millions and millions" of test cases still doesn't guarantee that the program always works as intended.
I think that this is an important lesson about testing. We should have fewer tests but we should try to get the most value possible out of each one and for developers that means actively seeking out unusual edge cases that are likely to break things.
I stopped reading there. 10% is nothing. For such a useful feature as automatic garbage collection, for the vast majority of applications, I'd gladly give away 50% of the CPU.
In terms of ensuring code correctness and robustness, if I had to choose static typing or automatic garbage collection, I'd pick garbage collection every time. It adds a lot of value in terms of development efficiency and code simplicity.