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Comment by pebal

7 hours ago

RC is a GC method and the least efficient one.

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winrid  2 hours ago

It's the most predictable and has much less overhead than a moving collector.

  • pjmlp  2 hours ago

    Only when we forget about the impact of cycle collections, or domino effects stoping the world when there is a cascade of counters reaching zero.

    The optimisatios needed to improve such scenarions, are akin to a poor man's tracing GC implementation.

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