I know what a uintptr is but what would you put in it if not a pointer to another object? Isn't this very analogous to what you said: "a weak hashmap uses weak references to refer to the contained objects so that they will be collected if nothing else refers to them".
Maybe I am missing something. I never meant to imply that they worked the same way _internally_ but at a conceptual level. fre 28 sep. 2018 kl 15:12 skrev Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com>: > His statement is correct. First of all, a weak reference in java is not > like a weak pointer in C++, at least they are not needed to break cycles, > as the GC is immune to that issue. The difference is that a weak hashmap > uses weak references to refer to the contained objects so that they will be > collected if nothing else refers to them, similar to a Lru cache. In this > case it is a uintptr which is not a reference to anything, it is just an > integer. > > On Sep 28, 2018, at 8:00 AM, Henrik Johansson <dahankz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > That's clever but irrelevant for this discussion. > > fre 28 sep. 2018 kl 14:57 skrev Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com>: > >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 2:53 PM Henrik Johansson <dahankz...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > The data pointed to by the uintptrs ... >> >> Uintptrs are integers. They do not point to anything. >> -- >> >> -j >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
