[gclist] Destructor FAQ

[Marc Feeley]

> I think there was some work done by the developers of Chez Scheme system
> that had a similar flavor but with a higher level interface referred to as
> "guardians." The mutator registered an object with a guardian, and could
> query the guardian to return a list of objects that were "dead" and recycle
> the resources. I remember coming across a paper about this a while back,
> but can't jog my memory enough to remember the exact reference. I personally
> thought it had a pretty good survey of various finalization techniques in
> the intro.. Anyone else able to remember the paper I'm talking about?

I think it was in PLDI 1993.  You can get a copy of it in Carl Bruggeman's
home page:

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/bruggema.html

Marc