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by barrkel 2333 days ago
No, RC is GC.

Most people think of Python as GCed language, and it uses mostly RC.

Any runtime that uses mark & sweep today may elect to use RC for some subset of the heap at some point in a future design, if that makes more sense. The mix of marking GC vs refcounting GC shouldn't affect the semantics of the program.