Example of Why Reference Counting is Important

[Vijay Nayar]

On Thursday, 10 August 2023 at 13:33:21 UTC, Vijay Nayar wrote:
> **TL;DR**: Reference Counting is a frequent topic of discussion 
> in the D community. The motivations aren't always clear. In the 
> context of machine learning, reference counting is valuable due 
> to the low memory capacity of graphics cards, and the need to 
> free unused memory as quickly as possible.

And just for additional reference, the discussion about the 
choice of garbage collector in Python (reference counting paired 
with a cyclic garbage collector to find reference cycles) can be 
found here: 
https://devguide.python.org/internals/garbage-collector/

"CPython" is just the reference implementation of the Python 
language, it's akin to `dmd`.