Article:		Modern Memory Management
Subject:		C++ has garbage collection?
Date:		2005-11-09 06:07:51
From:		orichy
Response to: C++ has garbage collection?
Hehe, well, it seems that PHP does indeed have GC, using reference counting. But i wouldn't call it true GC because it's not much different from using shared_ptr in C++, and it has the same problem with cyclic references: http://www.hudzilla.org/php/18_1_11.php http://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/?q=node/view/131 BTW: Even though i wouldn't use it, i would like C++ to get GC because that would mean more C++ programmers. :-) Regards!

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• C++ has garbage collection?
  2006-01-14 18:02:49  evanh [View]
  
  
  I'm of the opinion that C++'s memory and speed problems stem mainly from it's terrible standard libraries. Same goes for Java. I can't speak for the other languages having never used a desktop app written with one of them to compare with C.
  
  
  Evan