reference counting (English, noun)
expansion: reference counting (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The technique of storing the number of handles, pointers, or references to a resource such as a block of memory, disk space, or an object, so that the system can determine when the resource is no longer in use.
tags: uncountable
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