[gclist] Finalizer flame wars.

[Stefan Monnier]

> Let us suppose a garbage collected system is leaving a monster
> storage footprint to the point where the program is useless. Hardly
> an unknown phenomia. Asking why some objects are being kept alive
> by the collector is smart. You may be able to zero some pointers etc.

It might be smart to aks, but it requires some cleverness to figure out
what should be zeroed. Enough cleverness to make it almost impossible to
leave the decision to a program. And if a program cannot decide, a human
has to do it. Probably one of the programmers. In other words, what you
ask for is more like a profiling tool than a programming hook.


	Stefan