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Deepu K Sasidharan • Edited

Thanks and Yes, I'm aware. They did go all the way on the GC part 😜

Technically they all fit under definition of GC IMO. They don't have ARC or Ownership as far as I see

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Juan Carlos

--gc:arc

flat reference counting with move semantics and destructors with single ownership,
optimized with sink and lent annotations for zero-copy all the way is annotated,
basically it is like a shared heap with subgraphs with a single owner,
all this is done at compile-time, and ownership can be checked at run-time too.

Not really a GC despite --gc:.

Not really the same as Swift and ObjectiveC lang ARC because those can not handle cycles.

Not really Atomic despite ARC,
it wont need atomic reference counting,
a graph is always owned by a single owner,
then no need to make the reference counting atomic
(real atomic is known to be kinda slow).

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Deepu K Sasidharan • Edited

Well, in that case, it's just bad grouping coz ARC is not GC. And seems these are buried in the docs somewhere.