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btilly
on Aug 17, 2010
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Three bad things: threads, garbage collection, and...
With reference counting, those issues are
never
caught.
j_baker
on Aug 17, 2010
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It's not just about reference counting though. It's a weakness of deterministic destructors. When you have a reference cycle, it's impossible to call destructors deterministically even if you
aren't
using reference counting.
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