Re: Introducing "toggle references"



On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 02:12 +0200, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:

> The basic question here is, how much can Java object do when its
> reference count changes? If it can make sure that on refcount == 1
> references to underlying GObject are made into toggle references, then
> we can have proper cycle management scheme that will collect cycles when
> possible, but not before.
> 
> Again, sorry if it's exactly your argument, but I just don't know that
> and don't have time to do proper homework right now.

Java doesn't even use reference counts for garbage collection... about
all you can do in Java is get notification when an object has been
garbage collected.

Regards,
						Owen

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