Posted by gosha bine on 06/18/07 13:01

On 18.06.2007 14:11 Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> 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.
>

Well, I know at least two people who are already confused. ;)

Before starting the next meaningless scholastic discussion about terms,
make sure you do understand how GCs work and what is the difference
between "tracing"/"full-automatic" GCs and reference counting.

--
gosha bine

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