Of Bounties and Mercenaries

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  6, 2004, "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl@caltech.edu> wrote:

> In C++, you can use Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII).

Sure.  That, along with reference-counted pointers, can take care of
*some* cases in which you'd like to release memory.  It doesn't take
care of cycles, though, and they're quite pervasive in GCC.  Besides,
garbage collection can actually be more efficient than reference
counting, if it's done well.

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