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Noun Concept
Categories: Automatic memory management, Memory management
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reference counting  Refcount  Refcounting  reference count  reference cycle
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In computer science, reference counting is a programming technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource, such as an object, a block of memory, disk space, and others. Wikipedia
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In computer science, reference counting is a programming technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource, such as an object, a block of memory, disk space, and others. Wikipedia
The technique of storing the number of handles, pointers, or references to a resource such as a block of memory, disk space, or an object, so that the system can determine when the resource is no longer in use. Wiktionary
Act of making a count. Wiktionary (translation)
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garbage collection
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Refcount, Refcounting, reference count, reference cycle, reference graph

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