Three kinds of memory leaks

Re:Three kinds of memory leaks by seandougall on Monday April 30, 2018 @11:19PM (#16964362)

I’m surprised I don’t see reference cycles listed. Strictly speaking I suppose they’re a subset of “unreachable allocations”, but they have a different feel, particularly as they can occur even with GC.

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Re:Three kinds of memory leaks by hawkice on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:02AM (#16966012)

Garbage collection can handle reference cycles -- that's why it is better than reference counting (at handling the eventual freeing of arbitrary data).

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