On Jan 5, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Peter Bozek wrote:
On 1/5/07, Charles Yeomans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As I understand it, "garbage collection" is usually used to refer to
memory management schemes that defer cleanup of freed memory, which
reference counting does not (in most implementations).
According to wikipedia, reference counting is garbage collection -
which makes sense, it can be hardly considered manual memory
management.
Since we're all going to split hairs here, it is in fact more
accurate to say that memory management via reference counting
performs garbage collection.
Charles Yeomans
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