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They can, and it's basically what LLVM does when you turn on ARC for your Objective-C program.

Read all about it and it seems to just be reference counting :-( Not as exciting as it seemed.

Well that's kinda in the name. ARC = Automatic Reference Counting.

Besides, who's looking for exciting? It's freedom from stupid memory errors. That's awesome!

Thanks, that's really interesting.