Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/18/07 14:15

gosha bine wrote:
> 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.
>

Believe me - I know how garbage collection works. I haven't been
programming longer than you've been alive without finding out.

You really need to understand the terminology before you start telling
people they're wrong.

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