The "no gc" crowd

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On Wednesday, 9 October 2013 at 07:33:38 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Is there more to it? Cleaning up circular references I guess... 
> what does Apple do?
> It's an uncommon edge case, so there's gotta be heaps of room 
> for efficient solutions to that (afaik) one edge case. Are 
> there others?

There is a research paper people linked in a similar debate, that 
states systems that detect ARC circular references are actually 
not that far from an actual GC.
I can't find it right now.