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> Reference counting is a type of garbage collection. I'm well aware, or I wouldn't have brought Those types up, obviously. But there's a vast difference betw
by deaddodo 7y ago
> Reference counting is a type of garbage collection.
I'm well aware, or I wouldn't have brought Those types up, obviously.
But there's a vast difference between a language's memory management/type system being intrinsically Garbage Collected and a couple special use types hoisting that functionality.