Yes, that's pretty much the case. A lot of those uses were hacks designed to get around the deficiencies of the old loading model.
Rick On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Mark Miesfeld <miesf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The users *might* have gone away...there could be references to the >> package on instances running on other threads. The timing of when the >> weak references can be cleared are subject to the dynamics of the >> garbage collector. One factor that might result in it not getting >> cleared immediately upon termination is uninit methods on class >> instances created from the same package. It's really just a matter of >> timing on when that gets cleared. So if the package manager still has >> an instance in the cache, it gets used. The cache entry can >> potentially get cleared out to prevent a persistent memory leak, but >> the weak reference will not get cleared at the exact moment the object >> goes out of scope. It takes at least one GC cycle (potentially more >> if uninit methods are involved). > > That all makes sense to me Rick. And, I am far, far, more in favor of > the current behavior of the package only getting loaded once than the > old behavior of the package getting loaded over and over. > > So, for people using the C / C++ APIs to start the interpreter more > than once in a single process, the advice would be to not use any > package files that rely on the code before the directives being > executed? > > -- > Mark Miesfeld > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
