You mean you didn't implement your own GC on top of the JVM's GC? Where's your sense of adventure...
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM, David Pollak <[email protected] > wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:29 PM, braver <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I have a simple question on migrating a typical PinS-desribed pattern: >> >> def act() = >> loop { >> react { >> case DoSomething => ... >> case EXIT => exit() >> } >> } >> >> -- now, without exit(), how does it terminate? >> > > Like any other object in the JVM... when the last reference to the Lift > Actor is gone, the Lift Actor is garbage collected. Lift Actors (like JVM > objects) don't have a concept of "running". They will always respond to > messages sent to them. They consume no system resources other than memory > except when they are processing a message, then they will consume a thread > out of the thread pool. > > >> >> Cheers, >> Alexy >> >> >> > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Surf the harmonics > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
