Re: RFC: Foreign objects in perl

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:25 AM 8/6/00 -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
>John Tobey wrote:
> > But if we anticipate possibly implementing mark-and-sweep
>
>We're definitely going to have some sort of traversing collector. It
>might only augment the ref count collector.

I'd rather not have multiple GC schemes going at once. (Though we may need 
some sort of "refered to by" field to track variables that have had 
references to them taken, so we know when the last referent goes out of scope)


                                        Dan

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