[Vm-dev] Reference counting

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed May 9 14:36:42 UTC 2012


On 09.05.2012, at 16:33, Damien Cassou wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> how does the VM handle reference counting for the garbage collector?
> When is the counter increased/decreased?


The Squeak VM does not use reference counting, but mark-and-sweep.

- Bert -




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