Definitely use reference counting, it's better! Now you're avoiding cyclic data structures and it sucks, so maybe just for a few objects we'll put them on a lin

Definitely use reference counting, it's better! Now you're avoiding cyclic data structures and it sucks, so maybe just for a few objects we'll put them on a linked list, maybe mark them, definitely sweep from time to time to see if anything is unreachable. I'm told there's an algorithm by Boehm. Well, ok, let's go whole hog, we're collecting garbage again, and it sucks, we get all these baby objects, let's try and optimize the GC: we can keep, I dunno, a count of references to new objects, do some allocation sinking to see if we can avoid making them, put the babies in an orphanage, hey look, RC is GC, QED.