On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 22:29:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
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
This is what I was saying all along, in CS GC books reference
counting is usually introduced as poor man's GC solution. As the
most simple way to implement some kind of automatic memory
management, specially in memory constrained devices at the
expense of execution speed.
--
Paulo
