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kaba0 on July 29, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reference count, don't garbage collect

How is that not the exact same for tracing GC?

mamcx on July 29, 2022 [–]

Well, you don't need the GC. That is the point of this: Rc could be piece-meal. That is something that could be exploited very well making a interpreter, for example (that is what Array langs do under the hood)

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