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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: 14 Sep 2003 23:58:09 +0200
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Berend de Boer <berend@xsol.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 
>     Martin> I agree with you on that one. A reference counting access
>     Martin> type would be as good a real garbage collector.
> 
> Only it adds a lot of overhead. A real garbage collector might take
> lots less cycles than all that reference counting.

Linus Torvalds differs quite strongly on this:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00571.html

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Ludovic Brenta.