Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It doesn't move objects in memory, and thus free memory is fragmented.
>
> That's not a feature of refcounting as such. With sufficient
> indirection, moveable refcounted memory blocks are possible
> (early Smalltalks worked that way, I believe).
Yes, but the indirection is a cost in itself. A tracing GC can move
objects without such indirection, because it can update all pointers
to the given object.
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