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Reference counting is not tracing garbage collection. To also quote a Wikipedia Link: „The main advantage of the reference counting over tracing garbage collect

Reference counting is not tracing garbage collection. To also quote a Wikipedia Link: „The main advantage of the reference counting over tracing garbage collection is that objects are reclaimed as soon as they can no longer be referenced, and in an incremental fashion, without long pauses for collection cycles and with clearly defined lifetime of every object.“ + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting

vor_ 2y ago
> Reference counting is not tracing garbage collection. ??? They didn't say it was.
mkl 2y ago
Of course reference counting is not tracing garbage collection. I never said it was. The comment I replied to claimed reference counting was not garbage collection at all and seemed to think tracing garbage collection was the only kind of garbage collection. Reference counting and tracing garbage collection are two different types of garbage collection.