# Garbage collector and memory management

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Any knowledge of a general implementation of the first alternative, i.e. reference counting? E.g. reference counted resources, arrays, C-allocated objects etc.

See also [Resource pooling - to avoid dynamic allocation](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/resource-pooling-to-avoid-dynamic-allocation/16921)

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