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Am I misunderstanding something or does the author seem to be conflating garbage collection with the automatic memory management C++ enables via smart pointers?
by jay-barronville 3y ago
Am I misunderstanding something or does the author seem to be conflating garbage collection with the automatic memory management C++ enables via smart pointers? Those are two entirely different things.
- swiftcoder 3y agoReference-counted smart pointers might not be what we usually mean by a "garbage collector", but they certainly are a form of garbage collection.