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0 pointspjmlp8y ago0 comments

PHP also has a garbage collector.

Swift and D also have garbage collectors and support RAII.

And since I already see it coming, reference counting is a garbage collection implementation algorithm in computer science literature.

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mratzloff8y ago

Yep, and I even referred to reference counting earlier in the week as garbage collection, so I'm going to assume I was having memory corruption with my answer. :-)

pjmlpOP8y ago

Hehe :)

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