Tasks, actors and garbage collection

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 21 April 2021 at 09:47:32 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 April 2021 at 09:23:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> None of the examples I gave use the pre-historic Boehm 
>> collector.
>
> That doesn't change the fact that D's current default collector 
> is comparable to Boehm.
>
> I don't know anything about C++/CX, but wikipedia says:
>
> «A WinRT object is reference counted and thus handles similarly 
> to ordinary C++ objects enclosed in shared_ptrs. An object will 
> be deleted when there are no remaining references that lead to 
> it.
>
> There is no garbage collection involved.»
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CX

Reference counting is GC.