A couple garbage collector questions

[Greg Ewing]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
> There's no reason to
> increment a reference count and decrement it within the same basic block,

In other words, the programmer will probably have
performed this optimisation himself before the
compiler gets a chance!

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