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> Many other GCed languages, such as swift Swift is not garbage collected, it uses reference counting. So, memory there is freed immediately when it is no long

> Many other GCed languages, such as swift Swift is not garbage collected, it uses reference counting. So, memory there is freed immediately when it is no longer in scope.

vips7L 1y ago
Reference counting is a form of garbage collection.
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pjmlp 1y ago
People really should learn more about CS when discussing these matters. Chapter 5, https://gchandbook.org/contents.html https://gchandbook.org/contents.html