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with all those differences, reference counting is not garbage collecting, it's like calling free in c garbage collecting, which is incorrect.
by khkjb80 8y ago
with all those differences, reference counting is not garbage collecting, it's like calling free in c garbage collecting, which is incorrect.
- madmax96 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer... Reference counting is listed as a strategy to achieve garbage collection. Broadly speaking, garbage collection is the process of automatically managing the lifecycles of objects in memory, which reference counting certainly achieves.