Re: investigation into replacing ref. counts with leases

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:

> There's no garbage in normal operation with the scheme I was implementing.
>   This is not like GC in that respect. The "garbage" only occurs when
> a process dies without cleaning up after itself. In normal operation,
> leases are destroyed, which is done immediately. Old leases expire,
> and that's the part that's done with a timer. But a local reference
> would never have an old lease unless there was a programming mistake.

Hmm, what about periodically "pinging" all objects ?

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Martin Baulig
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