On 11/11/13 2:43 PM, Matthew Robb wrote:
I haven't been able to read through all of this very thoroughly but I would like to inject that I have a use case right now for some sort of callback on a WeakMap that notifies AFTER the key has been GC'd but before the value has been released.
Requiring the existence of such a point in time (at all, even if there is no callback at that poing) is a significant constraint on GC implementation strategies, as far as I can tell. For example, it prevents finalization of a bunch of objects as a unit via free() or munmap() or equivalent of an arena...
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