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Re:Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013) by pjmlp on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:18PM (#21161523)
Reference counting, regardless how it is implemented (language primitives or library), is a garbage collection algorithm.
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Re:Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013) by jacobush on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:15AM (#21177730)
This is stretching definitions imho. Ref counting does not stop the world or kick in when you don’t expect it to.
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