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0 pointspcwalton7y ago0 comments

Reference counting is a form of garbage collection.

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tombert7y ago· 1 in thread

Yes but this is done at compile-time, not runtime, isn't it?

EDIT: Upon reading some stuff, apparently I am mistaken, and it's got runtime overhead. Silly me.

You're not totally wrong; that's the "A" in ARC: Automatic. It automatically inserts code at compile time, but that code has a runtime effect.

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