Python vs Java garbage collection?

[Erik Max Francis]

Robert Oschler wrote:

> Sorry for the confusion, I said auto_ptr when I meant shared_ptr which
> is
> reference counted.

I brainfarted your brainfart as well; I was thinking of
boost::shared_ptr or something similar rather than std::auto_ptr, but
just mumbled the same words you did.  Oops.

I suppose one could try to make the save that std::auto_ptr is a form of
reference counting, it's just one in which it only counts zero or one
references :-).

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