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There’s just no good reason to conflate the two. Rust’s Arc and C++’s std::shared_ptr do not reclaim reference cycles, so you can call it “garbage collection” i
by simonask 1y ago
There’s just no good reason to conflate the two. Rust’s Arc and C++’s std::shared_ptr do not reclaim reference cycles, so you can call it “garbage collection” if you want, but the colloquial understanding is way more useful.
- pjmlp 1y agoThe coloquial term is like people arguing about coaching a footbal team without making it into the field. Chapter 5, https://gchandbook.org/contents.html https://gchandbook.org/contents.html Other CS quality references can be provided with similar table of contents.