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		jacobush on Oct 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parsing C++ is literally undecidable (2013) I should have said "not garbage collection" instead of manual memory management.

pjmlp on Oct 4, 2019 [–]

Reference counting, regardless how it is implemented (language primitives or library), is a garbage collection algorithm.

jacobush on Oct 7, 2019 | [–]

This is stretching definitions imho. Ref counting does not stop the world or kick in when you don’t expect it to.

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