On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:48 PM Alex Besogonov <alex.besogo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And no, reference counting is NOT a GC. > > General consensus, at least among academia, is that automated reference counting is a GC scheme. You may argue that it is not based on whether it is implicitly done (Like Ruby and Python did/does), or explicitly done (as in Swift, C++, ...). One strong argument as to why is the idea that mark'n'sweep and refcount are each others "duals". See "A Unified theory of garbage collection" by Bacon, et.al. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAGrdgiUpFpK%3DsordTPM%3DWcbnQbTpz7vTYNyWwyCC3MMa_FSfMw%40mail.gmail.com.
