manual memory management

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 22:29:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 09, 2013 14:14:15 Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/9/2013 1:23 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
>> > And are you considering reference counting to be garbage 
>> > collection like
>> > Walter does,
>> 
>> It's not something I came up with. It is generally accepted 
>> that ref
>> counting is a form of garbage collection.
>
> I definitely would never have referred to reference counting as 
> garbage
> collection and find it quite odd that it would be considered to 
> be such, but
> Wikipedia does indeed list it as being a form of garbage 
> collection:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)
>
> So, it's backing you up in your usage of the term.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

This is what I was saying all along, in CS GC books reference 
counting is usually introduced as poor man's GC solution. As the 
most simple way to implement some kind of automatic memory 
management, specially in memory constrained devices at the 
expense of execution speed.

--
Paulo