kotlin native still has garbage collection right?

# kotlin-native

[harmony]

kotlin native still has garbage collection right?

[gildor]

automatic reference counting with a cycle collector on top

[evanchooly]

isn't courtesy of LLVM?

[gildor]

No, 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

[agrosner]

Garbage collector for memory cycles so you don't have the same problems as iOS developers and reference counting

[spierce7]

@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?

[agrosner]

Yes. It tracks those and when both objects are not referenced outside the cycle it knows to dispose them apparently