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Just to be clear: reference counting isn't a garbage collection strategy. It is, however, an automatic memory management strategy.
by alblue 10y ago
Just to be clear: reference counting isn't a garbage collection strategy. It is, however, an automatic memory management strategy.
- hyperpape 10y agoReference counting is a form of garbage collection. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659863#up_11662144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659863#up_11662144 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting#Use_in_garbage_collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting#Use_in_garb... [3] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf