kotlin native still has garbage collection right?
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harmony
09/29/2017, 1:04 AMkotlin native still has garbage collection right?
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gildor
09/29/2017, 1:33 AMautomatic reference counting with a cycle collector on top
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evanchooly
09/29/2017, 2:09 AMisn't courtesy of LLVM?
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gildor
09/29/2017, 2:10 AMNo, Kotlin-native has own memory management. LLVM as I know provides some tooling for GC, but don’t know does k/n use it or not
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agrosner
09/29/2017, 2:22 AMGarbage collector for memory cycles so you don't have the same problems as iOS developers and reference counting
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spierce7
09/29/2017, 8:04 PM@gildor What is a cycle collector? Would that solve the cyclic dependencies problem? i.e. A has a ref to B, which has a ref to A, so none of them can be released from memory causing a leak?
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agrosner
09/29/2017, 8:55 PMYes. It tracks those and when both objects are not referenced outside the cycle it knows to dispose them apparently
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