Re: garbage collection

[Skip Montanaro <skip pobox com>]

    Valdis> Not really.  Remember that memory would *STILL* get wasted even
    Valdis> with a garbage collector, if there isn't something imposing
    Valdis> rules.  If the programmer doesn't call free(), the memory won't
    Valdis> get freed with a garbage collector, because there will still be
    Valdis> a reference (the pointer that wasn't free()ed).

On the other hand, coupling garbage collection of containers with the
current reference counting scheme might make sense if it can be pulled off.
Python is reference counted.  In 2.0 a garbage collector was added to
reclaim circular garbage.

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