At 4:22 PM +0100 8/25/02, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:16:35AM -0400, Tanton Gibbs wrote:
>> > In this case, it is quite likely that many programs will get that flag
>> > set. In which case, we'll need to be doing a DOD run at the end of most
>> > blocks
>>
>> I would hope not. The only things which will set this flag are those items
>> needing deterministic destruction, not all
>> items with a destructor. It may be that for some languages these are they
>> same set of objects, but for others those requiring determininstic
>> destruction will be a small subset of those that have destructors and won't
>> appear frequently in programs. we'll just have to wait and see if Perl6
>> makes this distinction to see if this choice is well founded or not.
>
>Well, if understood you correctly, then a single execution of
>
> my $fh = IO::File->new(...)
>
>anywhere in the program or its libraries would trigger this slow behaviour
>for the rest of the program.
No. That's why we make it a counter. When a DOD run is made we recalc
the number of deterministci destructions needed.
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