On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
> I agree. This is a good use for weakrefs without the need for finalization.
> Thanks!
>
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> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:12 PM, K. Gadd <[email protected]> wrote:
> The problem is that the cycles remain uncollectable for a very long period of
> time, even though functionally the references don't need to be strong.
Ah, these are all basically the same problem and you will likely see the same
latency effects for all of them. Any GC design where you may have serious
latency for collection cyclic structures (for example, a generational heap
where the circular structure crosses generations) is very likely to also have
similar latency for zapping weak references that are used in the similarly
shaped data structures.
Allen
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