Re^5: How I want my memory managed

I know all that. :) My point is that reference counting is a technique of garbage collection.. so you got your terminology mixed up. What you meant to say is mark&sweep vs refcounting.

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Re: Re^5: How I want my memory managed by MarkM (Curate) on Dec 15, 2002 at 02:48 UTC
Ah yes... terminology... sorry... :-) Replace every occurrence of 'garbage collection' with 'non-reference counted garbage collection' in posts that I made. The reason I made it more vague, is because there are more ways to perform non-reference counted garbage collection than 'mark & sweep'. The most obvious example is a 'copy' garbage collector. Technically, you are definately correct that reference counting is a form of garbage collection.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re^5: How I want my memory managed by dani++ (Sexton) on Dec 18, 2002 at 11:19 UTC
Uhhh... The information officer in Chaplin's movie about war is called 'Garbitch', so that means he's not using refcounting? Burp! Sorry, too much beer. =) dani++ (reference count increment)	[reply]