On 2010-08-10 18:51:24 -0400, Lutger <[email protected]> said:
This is what I proposed, but the other way around and the semantics of
~~this implemented by an interface. If we keep ~this as the finalizer,
the language need not to change so it will not impact existing code too
much.
Perhaps you're right, but I wonder...
Structs can be on the GC heap too, so structs also need two kinds of
destructors. And I believe right now much more structs have a
destructor than classes have one.
So the question becomes: are most struct destructors currently intended
to be run during collection cycle or they are expected to be called in
a more deterministic way? I don't have the answer to that
unfortunately. The only thing I can say is that if a destructor
accesses the GC-heap through one of its members then it is not suitable
to be run during a collection cycle. (And most classes, strings, or
arrays are in GC heap.)
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