On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Yes, I accept that.
Btw, is a demonstraction a cross between a demo and a distraction ;) ?
>
> Allen
>
>
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Cheers,
--MarkM
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