alt Hacker NewsThere is no need for garbage collection if you don’t form circular references. Just have a canonical direction and always keep weak references the other way.
There is no need for garbage collection if you don’t form circular references. Just have a canonical direction and always keep weak references the other way.
Reference counting is a different model. Many papers have explored the differences and similarities, and your comment leaves so much out that it cannot even be said to be true or false.
I'd say GC is always the fastest to free objects within the main code path. Literally zero instructions.