Reference counting garbage collection

[Chris Tavares]

"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
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> unpredictable time.  People used to RC's strengths have
> a hard time adapting to the "whenever I get around to
> it" attitude of mark-and-sweep GC -- witness the furious
> debate among long-time COM programmers when they learned
> that .NET would NOT use reference counting but rather
> mark-and-sweep (so, no guaranteed finalization time).
>

Actually, .NET uses a generational copying collector, NOT a mark & sweep
collector. Just to be pedantic. :-)

-Chris