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General programming circles: “garbage collection” means only the “tracing” kind

PL circles: reference counting is also “garbage collection”

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I sincerely doubt that those two groups are disjunct, or that they use the phrase "garbage collection" exclusively in the contexts you wrote.

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0 pointsavgcorrection2y ago0 comments

General programming circles: “garbage collection” means only the “tracing” kind

PL circles: reference counting is also “garbage collection”

I sincerely doubt that those two groups are disjunct, or that they use the phrase "garbage collection" exclusively in the contexts you wrote.

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