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andrewchambers on July 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem in Go 1.5

I thought the A was for atomic, ARC is atomic reference count. RC is non atomic.

mseepgood on July 9, 2015 [–]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting

andrewchambers on July 9, 2015 | [–]

My mistake, in rust it is atomic, in objective c it is automatic.

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