In computer science, reference counting is a programming technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource, such as an...
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Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is a memory management feature of the Clang compiler providing automatic reference counting for the Objective-C and...
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Garbage collection (computer science) (category Use list-defined references from July 2022)
Reference counting garbage collection is where each object has a count of the number of references to it. Garbage is identified by having a reference...
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and reference counting. Reference counting schemes record the number of references to a given object and collect the object when the reference count becomes...
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to each element. Counting sometimes involves numbers other than one; for example, when counting money, counting out change, "counting by twos" (2, 4, 6...
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Memory management (section Reference counting)
by either adding the concept of a "weak reference" (a reference that does not participate in reference counting, but is notified when the area it is pointing...
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have a usable reference to the memory in question, it can be collected. Other garbage collection schemes can be based on reference counting, where an object...
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Component Object Model (category Articles needing additional references from January 2024)
object is handled by requiring each object to destroy itself via reference-counting. Access to an object's interfaces (similar to Type conversion) is...
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Resource acquisition is initialization (category Articles needing additional references from December 2012)
PHP manage object lifetime by reference counting, which makes it possible to use RAII. Objects that are no longer referenced are immediately destroyed or...
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Hard link (section Reference counting)
file once occupied. Most file systems that support hard links use reference counting. The file system stores an integer value with each logical data section...
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Python (programming language) (category Monty Python references)
such as list comprehensions, cycle-detecting garbage collection, reference counting, and Unicode support. Python 2.7's end-of-life was initially set for...
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Objective-C (category Articles needing additional references from November 2012)
of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Objective-C on iOS 7 running on ARM64 uses 19 bits out of a 64-bit word to store the reference count, as a form of...
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Smart pointer (category Articles needing additional references from June 2015)
network sockets. Several types of smart pointers exist. Some work with reference counting, others by assigning ownership of an object to one pointer. Even though...
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Swift uses Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to manage memory. Every instance of a class or closure maintains a reference count which keeps a running...
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List of jōyō kanji (redirect from Kanji Reference:IndexByStrokeCount)
The jōyō kanji (常用漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [dʑoːjoːkaꜜɲdʑi], lit. "regular-use kanji") system of representing written Japanese currently consists of...
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process) can execute basic operations (such as memory allocation and reference counting) at a time. As a general rule, an interpreter that uses GIL will see...
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allocations must be explicit. The built-in reference types using the & symbol do not involve run-time reference counting. The safety and validity of the underlying...
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Dangling pointer (redirect from Dangling reference)
or reference counting. However, a finalizer may create new references to an object, requiring object resurrection to prevent a dangling reference. Wild...
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deprecated in favor of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). In this model, the runtime turned Cocoa reference counting operations such as "retain" and "release"...
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another word of it." Cervantes probably adapted the story of counting goats from a story of counting sheep in the early twelfth-century Spanish work Disciplina...
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2014. "Counting Crows Sign With Capitol Records for New Studio Album". The Hollywood Reporter. May 19, 2014. "Counting Crows". IMDb. Counting Crows at...
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of regions and reference counting, limiting the overhead of reference counting since references internal to regions don't require counts to be updated...
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Finger-counting, also known as dactylonomy, is the act of counting using one's fingers. There are multiple different systems used across time and between...
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such as list comprehensions, cycle-detecting garbage collector, reference counting, memory management and support for Unicode, along with a change to...
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Manual memory management (category Articles needing additional references from June 2009)
Objective-C and Swift provide similar functionality through Automatic Reference Counting. The main manually managed languages still in widespread use today...
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Tracing garbage collection (category Articles needing additional references from July 2016)
as reference counting – and there are a large number of algorithms used in implementation. Informally, an object is reachable if it is referenced by at...
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footprint (~50 KB) Soft, real-time incremental garbage collection (no reference counting) Native threading Full implementation of states Simple binding with...
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C++/CX (section Reference counting)
table and pointer to the object's internal data. A WinRT object is reference counted and thus handles similarly to ordinary C++ objects enclosed in shared_ptrs...
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count slowly. This table illustrates some example counting systems. The primary goal of a card counting system is to assign point values to each card that...
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Boaz (Spring 2006). "Complexity of counting" (PDF). Princeton University. "counting problem". PlanetMath. "counting complexity class". PlanetMath. v t...
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