Re: Lock-free reference counting

"Mark Wooding" <mdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:slrngirpj5.5k5.mdw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Chris M. Thomasson <no@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes it does. The GC might collect sooner wrt your example once in a blue
moon. This is all about determinism -vs- non-determinism.

No, as I pointed out elsewhere. (Tracing) GC behaviour is more complex
and harder to predict but not necessarily non-deterministic.

When I say non-deterministic wrt GC I mean that one cannot always show _exactly_ when and where objects will be collected and destroyed.




(I'm pedantically including the word `tracing' because I consider
reference counting to be a technique for implementing automatic storage
management.)

-- [mdw]

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