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By that definition, a C++ program with heavy usage of std::shared_ptr has GC.

And it does. Reference counting is garbage collection. And std::shared_ptr, or Rust's Rc/Arc are basically lightweight GC runtimes inside your program.

Isn't that the point?

I don't think it's the point of the comment I replied to, no.

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