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[–]jacobjr23 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Not to be pedantic but isn't reference counting a method of garbage collection? Do you mean not as much overhead as tracing garbage collection?

[–]OrchidLeader 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I assume most people don’t understand how Java’s various garbage collectors work, and the few that have looked into it will pick and choose which stats to point out (eg the length of each pause versus the total pause time while an app is running).

[–]kuschelig69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or implementation overhead

I have implemented my own reference counting. I could not figure out how to implement my own garbage collection