Re: Promptness of collection

Charles Forsyth <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:17:53 +0000
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On 12 March 2013 15:15, Charles Forsyth <[email protected]> wrote:

> and it's easy to see that it is prompt


sorry, I meant "it is easy to see that the reference-counting collector is
prompt ..."

the VCGC being required only when the reference counting has been
confounded by cycles, and then collection is no longer prompt.