Destructors and reference counting

Elbert Lev elbertlev at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 7 10:04:19 EDT 2004


Thanks all.

I want to explain why I do not like garbage collection. gc works great
for memory. But one can't expects real resources (files, sockets,
handles etc.)  be released by gc. Reference counting is a little bit
slower but predictable.



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