On Nov 12, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote: > > > Nevertheless, remember that I am not yet asking TC39 to standardize > distributed JS itself, and will not until we have some cowpaths. The ES7 > question is only regarding the remaining necessary primitive to start these > paving efforts -- weakrefs with postmortem finalization. In this thread, > we've already seen posts for other compelling uses of these, so they need not > be considered purely because of their support for distributed objects. If, > because of the above "memory pressure" point, weakrefs turn out not to be the > right way to do distributed GC after all, we will still have gained by adding > these to ES7. >
I appreciate that what I'm about to suggest isn't a small ask, but would a stronger starting point being a research demonstraction that this style of weakref (with turn based processing) is both feasible and efficient in JS. Allen _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
