Memory Management with Stephen Dolan
Signals and Threads
Cycle Removal Techniques for Rough Counted Systems
One immediate problem with naive reg counting proach is when you have cycles, and have a set of data that points circularly to itself. And then if you just do the kind of naive reu counting thing, the count will never get decrimented to zero. As was it really good over you this, there's a paper called the unified theory of garbage collection,. One way of looking at this is that in tracing g c, you need to walk over all the stuff that in use, and then everything that you don't touch is the stuff that's dead and can be garbage collected.
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