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Re:Reference count, don't garbage collect by MaxBarraclough on Saturday July 30, 2022 @05:15AM (#32285402)
> Any time doing book keeping for resources rather than running your code counts as GC time.

Perhaps a nitpick: memory management time, yes, but not GC time.

alloc/free is manual memory management, not garbage collection.

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Re:Reference count, don't garbage collect by naasking on Sunday July 31, 2022 @03:16PM (#32297960)
If you're using alloc/free in your GC, which is what was being implied, then that counts as GC time.
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