Comment by lelanthran

>> need to [...] attach a tracker to the struct representing that "something" and the tracker can count itself because it knows exactly when it is created and destroyed.

> Do you really need to know?

He, uh, just said that. If you're tracking profiling metrics like he is (lifetime of a call-stack, maybe?), you need to know.

> When you're interested in that sort of info you're using the wrong language

Under that argument, Java is the wrong language for everything.