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1 Oct 2024 15:23:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about garbage collection (not a flame)  
From: Warp
Date: 1 Apr 2008 04:07:09
Message: <47f1fb3c@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > (Naturally if it's a long chain of references, destroying the first
> > object will destroy all the others like dominoes falling.)

> That's where the "nondeterministic time" comes in with reference 
> counting, just so you recognise.

  How is that nondeterministic? It's perfectly predictable when those
objects will be destroyed. Just because destroying one object causes
the destruction of another doesn't make it "nondeterministic".

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                                                          - Warp


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