reference counting

English

Noun

reference counting (uncountable)

1. (computing) 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.

Hypernyms

• counting

Translations

act of making a count

• Finnish: viitelaskenta
• German: Referenzzählung f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: referansetelling m or f

References

• reference counting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia