Tech Talk: Moves and Borrowing In Rust With Jim Blandy
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Python
In python, all your variables ar reference counten to the example that i use. But it does mean that deciding when to free a value is kind of complicated. You gound have pointers into this structure from where in the programme. And any one of them will actually keep this structure alive. Although python does use reference counting for most of its management, it does have to fall back on a garbage collector in order to decide when to get rid of things at the end.
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