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Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by rian on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:10PM (#7315555)
Ah, I don't think ref counting is generally considered GC. It's more like RAII and used in C++ elsewhere via shared_ptr.
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Re:Garbage Collection is Wrong by danbruc on Thursday February 27, 2014 @05:31PM (#7315714)
It is a mechanism to figure out if a resource is no longer in use and can be released - that sounds like the very definition of garbage collection.
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