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Is reference counting not implicit manual memory management as well?
by winstonewert 10y ago
Is reference counting not implicit manual memory management as well?
- pcwalton 10y agoNo! Reference counting is dynamic tracking of object lifetimes. If reference counting is implicit manual memory management, then so is tracing GC!
- winstonewert 10y agoManual means "a thing operated or done by hand rather than automatically or electronically, in particular." It is very strange to me that you've decided the manual means: non-dynamic tracking of object lifetimes.