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A comment on Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017). Parent comment

Re:Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Referen... by hmlongco on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:41PM (#31174069)
Umm... but isn't the refcounting GC more deterministic? If I create a chain of 10 object and then release the head, I run through 10 allocations and then 10 release cycles on those 10 objects. Period.
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