On Wednesday, January 09, 2013 14:14:15 Walter Bright wrote: > On 1/9/2013 1:23 PM, Mehrdad wrote: > > And are you considering reference counting to be garbage collection like > > Walter does, > > It's not something I came up with. It is generally accepted that ref > counting is a form of garbage collection.
I definitely would never have referred to reference counting as garbage collection and find it quite odd that it would be considered to be such, but Wikipedia does indeed list it as being a form of garbage collection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science) So, it's backing you up in your usage of the term. - Jonathan M Davis
