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		pjmlp on Jan 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Welcome Chris Lattner That is an implementation detail of how a reference counting algorithm can be implemented.

jblow on Jan 12, 2017 [–]

If you're going to say that, then hand-coded memory allocation is just an implementation detail for a garbage collection algorithm.

True in some sense, but mostly useless. Come on.

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