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 Refuse is an implementation of a garbage collector based on the idea of
 deferring increments, allocating new objects as dead (reference count = 0), and
-only marking objects as live, as references can be found. Additionally, the
-object header to be used with the collector is packed for compactness. These
-three things, should help increase performance substantially over standard
-reference count garbage collectors.
+only marking objects as live, as references can be found. These three things,
+should help increase performance substantially over standard reference count
+garbage collectors.
 
 ## License