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Donn Felker

Kaushik Gopal

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In this mini-Fragment episode, Kaushik talks about the process of Garbage collection and how it compares to Reference counting (which is the equivalent process in iOS).

How does each work? What are the differences? Which is better 😁  ? Listen on for all the juicy details...

Show notes at http://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/064/

In this mini-Fragment episode, Kaushik talks about the process of Garbage collection and how it compares to Reference counting (which is the equivalent process in iOS).

How does each work? What are the differences? Which is better 😁  ? Listen on for all the juicy details...

## Show Notes

### Garbage collection (Android)

* [Garbage collection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)) [wikipedia.org]
* [How GC works in Dalvik](https://medium.com/@nitinkumargove/how-garbage-collection-works-in-dalvik-vm-in-android-bf781ab48531#.srrig644u) [medium.com]
* [How GC works with circular references](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1910194/how-does-java-garbage-collection-work-with-circular-references) [stackoverflow.com]


### Reference counting (iOS)

* [Reference counting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting) [wikipedia.org]
* [An in-depth look at manual memory management in Objective C](http://www.tomdalling.com/blog/cocoa/an-in-depth-look-at-manual-memory-management-in-objective-c/) [tomdalling.com]
* [Memory management in Objective C](http://rypress.com/tutorials/objective-c/memory-management) [rypress.com]
* [Weak, strong, unowned, oh my! (references in Swift)](http://krakendev.io/blog/weak-and-unowned-references-in-swift) [krakendev.io]

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Donn Felker

@donnfelker

Kaushik Gopal

@kaushikgopal

Fragmented · November 21, 2016

064: Garbage Collection (Android) vs Reference Counting (iOS)

Show Notes

Garbage collection (Android)

Reference counting (iOS)

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