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by hypeatei 236 days ago
Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) which is a form of garbage collection.
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kaoD 236 days ago
Now I'm curious, how does it GC cycles, if at all?

EDIT: from a brief search: it doesn't.

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kaoD 236 days ago
Not sure why you're downvoted, RC is definitely a form of GC even if not a tracing GC.
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