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Re:Objective-C Memory Management For Lazy People by schumihan on Thursday December 09, 2010 @10:38PM (#1990492)
It's very difficult to avoid it when thing goes complicating. A may reference B, B may reference C, ... and somewhere, X may reference back to A. If this strategy makes sense for big project, many hackers work with C++ can use it either, as the performance overhead is very low.

But in the real world, reference-count based GC just has limited usage.

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Re:Objective-C Memory Management For Lazy People by eru on Friday December 10, 2010 @06:48AM (#1991357)
> But in the real world, reference-count based GC just has limited usage.

And in theory it doesn't fare much better. Proper garbage collection can have better performance, and does the Right Thing.

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