On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 08:06:54 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 07:52:57 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
removed the GC
...
replaced it with automatic reference counting.
you *do* know that refcounting *is* GC, do you? ;-)
Reference counting is a technique for collecting garbage, but the
term «garbage collection» is typically used for techniques that
catch cycles by tracing down chains of pointers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)#Tracing_garbage_collectors
