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Re:Four years with Rust by dispose13432 on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @04:39PM (#13232853)
>Reference counting can be a useful memory management technique. But reference counting may cause unpredictable pauses when large amounts of objects suddenly need to be freed (e.g. when dropping the last reference to a large array holding many references).

How is it compared to other forms of GC?

Re:Four years with Rust by xorxornop on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:05AM (#13237650)
More performant, generally, particularly considering the fine-grained control it offers. However, cyclic datastructures may be problematic (similar to how they are in typical GC, but often worse). Of course, exceptions abound; the "better" choice is extremely use-case dependent.