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Discussion on: 🚀 Demystifying memory management in modern programming languages

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Matthew Turland • Edited

I believe PHP stopped altered its reference counting approach in version 7.

nikic.github.io/2015/05/05/Interna...

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Deepu K Sasidharan • Edited

Yes indeed, PHP 5.3 onwards is now using a tracing reference counting GC I believe.