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IMO any program with a sufficiently high number of entities in a low level language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of a

• omeid2 8y ago
  Not exactly, a garbage collector is by definition a collector (there is sweeps rather than per-reference and more importantly has runtime cost). I think, manual memory management is a lot more similar to a poorman's ARC implementation.
  • pjmlp 8y ago
    A poorman's ARC implementation might not collect cycles, but it does not do double free() or use-after-free().