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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Managed-Code Bloat
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In message <isjsa7$2j9$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> On 6/6/2011 5:06 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> I think JavaScript uses reference-counting, too. Why else would it have a
>> “delete” statement
> 
> As for python, Python does have a garbage collector because it is very
> easy to accidentally create cycles in references, the big bane of
> reference-counted systems.

Yes, but like Perl, the garbage collector only gets invoked in those less-
common cases where you do indeed have such cycles. The rest of the time 
(which is most of the time), reference-counting works just fine.

> Both SpiderMonkey and V8 are garbage-collected.

Probably same here.