Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/18/07 12:11

gosha bine wrote:
> 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. ;)
>
>

Except in this case it is not wrong or confusing. It is a method of
garbage collection.

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