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Re:For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage Collection by MaxBarraclough on Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:47PM (#19870989)
> ABA issues are totally eliminated by GC enabled setups

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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