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Chapter 5 of "The Garbage Collection Handbook", one of the GC gospel books.

Reference Counting is a garbage collection implementation algorithm from CS point of view.

RC has plenty of runtime costs as well, cache invalidation, lock contention on reference counters, stop the world in complex data structures, possible stack overflows if destructors are incorrectly written, memory fragmentation.




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