Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Well given a long chain of objects pointing to objects, and a pure 
> reference counting system, each scan of the GC will only reclaim *one* 
> object from the chain. If the chain is long, it could take a damn long 
> time to reclaim all that memory.

  Hmm, you are mixing reference counting with garbage collection.

  In a pure reference counting system the object is destroyed immediately
when all references to it go out of scope. There are no "GC scans".
(Naturally if it's a long chain of references, destroying the first
object will destroy all the others like dominoes falling.)

> Reference counting really is far too simplistic to work properly.

  Well, as long as you don't have circular references (there are ways
to make it *difficult* to create them) I don't see a problem.

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                                                          - Warp

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