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reference counting: a standalone construct

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automatic memory management that keeps a count of references to each object and frees it when the count reaches zero.

In programming languages, reference counting refers to automatic memory management that keeps a count of references to each object and frees it when the count reaches zero. This meaning comes from Collins (1960) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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reference3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs count2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs garbage collection1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Collins, G. E. (1960). A method for overlapping and erasure of lists. Communications of the ACM, 3(12), 655-657. https://doi.org/10.1145/367487.367501

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