Re: A betterC base

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/10/18 4:41 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 2/10/2018 7:14 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
RC is a form of GC.

Pedantically, yes. But common usage regards the two as disjoint, and 
it's inconvenient to treat RC as a subset of GC when discussing 
tradeoffs between the two. Nobody bothers with s/GC/GC excluding RC/.

"Tracing GC" is the common way of referring to GC techniques outside of 
reference counting. -- Andrei