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Re:Fundamentals of Garbage Collection by Findecanor on Saturday July 12, 2025 @09:48AM (#44542059)
That would still be tracing. The problem is that if there is a cycle, the reference count would be too high, and you'd not detect that the object should be reclaimed.
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Re:Fundamentals of Garbage Collection by louthy on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:41AM (#44568493)
I was replying to the OP:

> "but I was recently wondering if it would be possible to detect and deny pointer cycles in a language in an efficient way"

...not whatever issue you are worried about.

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