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by kaba0 1147 days ago
RC is GC, but without cleaning up cyclic references. In general, leaking memory is not a security problem (and with a good debugger it is trivial to fix), so I don’t think it is too important a property. Leaking every cyclic reference is a bit more of a problem, but it has solutions like the occasional tracing phase like with a “traditional”, mark’n’sweep GC, but at that point why not just go with them as they are much more performant?