Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Not necessarily. They're pointed to by the object that represents the 
> list as a whole. What pointer would you drop to make the list 
> garbage-collect with a reference-count GC?

  How do languages where there no concept of "new" (as in Java or C++)
nor a Java-style GC of dynamically allocated objects do it?

> Plus, reference counting has very bad performance as well as being 
> non-real-time and uninterruptable.

  Very bad performance? I think that incrementing/decrementing a counter
each time an object is copied doesn't increase too much of its slowness.
(Naturally in situations where you have to locally copy things a lot
you would not use dynamically allocated copies anyways, assuming the
language supports local instances.)

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