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Re:.NET GC Internals mini-series by nmeofthestate on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:38AM (#25882096)
There's no reference count on the object. That's not how garbage collection works in .NET, or Java for that matter.
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Re:.NET GC Internals mini-series by pjmlp on Saturday January 23, 2021 @12:34PM (#25884297)
They don't define which algorithms are to be used, and at least in what concerns Java, there are some implementations that experimented with reference counting based GCs.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

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