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weak-references
- Aug 6, 2026 Reference Counting and the Cycle It Cannot Break How an atomic count turns ownership into a distributed protocol, why strong counts cannot reclaim a cycle, and what weak references and trial deletion cost to add. programming languages
- Jan 30, 2025 Weak References, Finalization, and Ephemerons How a collector clears references that must not keep objects alive, why finalization needs its own reachability class, and the fixed-point iteration that ephemeron tables require. language runtimes