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1. raverbashing · 1791179654 · focus · HN ↗

   I don't get why people do not prefer reference counting, it has more predictable runtime performance

   (though of course a swap is a swap - but you can "trigger" it depending on your memory or file access pattern)

   1. xxs · 1791181968 · focus · HN ↗

      ref counting is expensive in multi-threaded applications. Overall it would have worse performance. When it comes to predictability: deallocating a linked list (for instance) would have to deallocate all of the elements. Dealing with loops is also not simple, either.

      1. raverbashing · 1791188013 · focus · HN ↗

         Honestly some (container) objects makes me think that they should be "parent obj management only"

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