The argument is not about whether or not we should make Pascal entirely GC'd, but about whether reference counting is better/worse than other garbage collection techniques if you have a significant amount of GC'd objects.
The Quake II benchmark was used to "prove" that full blown (I assume Boehm) GC was not slow. Q II, as tuned app, is probably already using primitive types heavily, thus not a poster child for this benchamark
Well, for a real Boehm test the FPC compiler should be used, I guess it makes a much more use of the heap than other apps :)
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