Absolutely. But note that if you don't have cycles, reference counting of SOME objects is faster than having a GC for everything. The RAII idiom when used in C+

Absolutely. But note that if you don't have cycles, reference counting of SOME objects is faster than having a GC for everything. The RAII idiom when used in C++ helps with statically determining that some objects can be released at defined points without having to reference count them.