Pretty sure this isn't affected by this discussion, but I have several applications (variants of GoServe) that use RexxStart on many (hundreds or thousands) of different threads within one process. ::Requires does not figure in those .. but please don't break them :-)))
Mike > Re: [Oorexx-devel] Problem with prologue of ::requires file not executing > > 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 Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
