Posted by gosha bine on 06/18/07 08:24

On 18.06.2007 04:30 Benjamin wrote:
> On Jun 16, 3:35 am, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Benjamin wrote:
>>> I've heard that the Zend Engine's garage collector is not perfect, so
>>> can someone demonstrate how to create a memory leak in PHP?
>> ZE doesn't use garbage collector, it implements reference counting
>> algorithm that is notorious for its inability to handle circular
>> references. If you have an object A that holds a reference to B, and B
>> directly or indirectly refers back to A, neither A nor B will be freed
>> until the script ends.
> According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> Reference_counting), reference counting is a form of garbage
> collecting.

The nice thing about Wikipedia is that if you find wrong or confusing
information there, you can correct it immediately. ;)


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gosha bine

extended php parser ~ http://code.google.com/p/pihipi
blok ~ http://www.tagarga.com/blok

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