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I checked and you are not correct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer...

Reference counting is a type of garbage collection.

On the other hand:

"Garbage collection vs. ARC"

https://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript#gc (Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31139610)

This (sub)headline only makes sense if garbage collection and ARC are different concepts.

Hmm I think they are referring to GC as “traditional” GC, but I will concede that they don’t seem to say that.

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