On Jan 05, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Mars Saxman wrote:
On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
NO garbage collection
When a reference count = 0 the object is deleted immediately
Reference counting is one of many possible garbage collection
strategies.
As a memory management technique I'd agree
As a "garbage collector" like Java's and other languages that have
ways to collect "garbage" that is no longer reachable it's not the same
I suppose it's hair splitting but when people say "garbage
collection" it's frequently meant "like Java's" which RB's is not
In most respects I don't care which is it as it makes my life easier
regardless of how you've done it EXCEPT when I have some cycle of
objects that maybe I lose drop the reference to (like a circularly
linked list)
Then it is vastly different
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