On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 07:33:38 UTC, Manu wrote:
Is there more to it? Cleaning up circular references I guess... what does Apple do? It's an uncommon edge case, so there's gotta be heaps of room for efficient solutions to that (afaik) one edge case. Are there others?
There is a research paper people linked in a similar debate, that states systems that detect ARC circular references are actually not that far from an actual GC.
I can't find it right now.
