On: Close Encounters of the Java Memory Model Kind

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Reference counting is a form of garbage collection.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659863#up_11662144

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting#Use_in_garb...

[3] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf