The argument against introducing non-determinism (or GC-dependent determinism)
from maybe a month ago seems much stronger than that of covert channels. A
claim of a reasonable implementation of a production language to be free of
covert channel is rather suspect. E.g., preventing covert
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Leo Meyerovich wrote:
That said, going back to the beginning: deterministic GC-independent
semantics are a Good Thing. Whether this matters seems to be a crucial
discussion. Is there a concern for basic
2010/9/2 Leo Meyerovich lmeye...@gmail.com:
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Brendan Eich wrote:
On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Leo Meyerovich wrote:
That said, going back to the beginning: deterministic GC-independent
semantics are a Good Thing. Whether this matters seems to be a crucial
I would strongly oppose any way to trigger a full garbage collection
from JavaScript. Experience from the Java world shows that it is
inevitably abused with very serious performance consequences.
Red herring, though JVM deployments seem like good examples of systems using
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