reference counting

The general benefits of reference counting, such as prompt collection.

Most file systems that support hard links use reference counting.

It's just what the name says: traditional Cocoa reference counting, done automatically.

There are two main types of garbage collection: tracing and reference counting.

This is especially useful in combination with reference counting.

Reference counting is also among the simplest forms of garbage collection to implement.

Squirrel also uses reference counting and offers cycle detection as well.

Cocoa uses a memory management technique called reference counting.

In some cases, this can be useful, for example with caching, reference counting, and data synchronization.

Some work with reference counting, others by assigning ownership of the object to a single pointer.

So all potential cost of Delphi's reference counting can, if desired, be easily circumvented.

One garbage collection technique which provides determinism in this regard is reference counting.

"automatic reference counting" is not quite garbage collection.

Unused program data is eliminated through automatic garbage collection (implemented by reference counting).

By the nature of reference counting, each of these garbage components must contain at least one cycle.

In indirect reference counting, it is necessary to keep track of whom the reference was obtained from.

Memory management is performed by reference counting.

Here we describe some of the variants on reference counting and their benefits and drawbacks.

For memory management, the GObject system provides reference counting.

In addition to manual reference counting, application programmers may choose to make use of 'autorelease pools'.

Thus, weighted reference counting is most useful in parallel, multiprocess, database, or distributed applications.

It uses a hybrid of reference counting and a real-time garbage collector for cyclic data.

In fact, I think that help for writing quality multi-threaded code is much more important than syntactic sugar for reference counting.

Due to the lack of explicit pointers in ParaSail, there is no need for reference counting.

Also, less importantly, reference counting requires every memory-managed object to reserve space for a reference count.