Reference counting garbage collection

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Aug 23 09:28:30 EDT 2001


    >> ain't-nothin'-obvious-about-gc-strategies-ly y'rs  - tim

    Paul> That's for sure--there's a large literature of GC research that
    Paul> goes back for decades.  It's not appropriate to ignore everything
    Paul> that's been tried.

I don't think anything's been ignored.  It's just that nothing made it into
the language beyond the Neil's cyclical GC stuff.

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