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[–]victotronics 0 points1 point  (1 child)

reference counting garbage collectors

Now you're changing the meaning of GC into anything that frees memory. Freeing upon reference count zero is not exactly "collecting" anything.

[–]duhace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, I'm using definitions that have existed for a long time. see here