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Doesn't the same approach work with a thread-safe reference-counting approach to memory-management?
The big difference between tracing GC, and reference-counting, is the ability to handle reference-cycles. Is that relevant here?
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Doesn't the same approach work with a thread-safe reference-counting approach to memory-management?
The big difference between tracing GC, and reference-counting, is the ability to handle reference-cycles. Is that relevant here?