On 28/08/2014 08:04, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:35 AM, Nick Wellnhofer <[email protected]> wrote:
OTOH, this might allow us to use the host language's GC for all Clownfish
objects and make refcounting a no-op which seems like an interesting idea.
We should explore every option to make that work -- it's the ideal.
But consider the challenges posed by a concurrent collector which might fire
at any time.
Another problem is that if someone starts developing an extension for a host
language with GC, he can't test whether it works properly under a host
language with ref counting. If someone else wants to use the extension under a
refcounted language, he will probably have to fix memory leaks and things like
circular references that the original author didn't care about.
Nick
