<programming> A garbage collection technique where each
memory cell contains a count of the number of other cells
which point to it. If this count reaches zero the cell is
freed and its pointers to other cells are followed to
decrement their counts, and so on recursively.
This technique cannot cope with circular data structures.
Cells in such structures refer (indirectly) to themselves and
so will never have a zero referencecount. This means they
would never be reclaimed, even when there are no references
from outside the structure.
(1995-02-22)
Referencecounting
In computer science, referencecounting 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.
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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.