[gclist] Finalizer flame wars.

[Charles Fiterman]

> > Information on why all objects are being kept alive is a good way
> > to reduce monster footprints. Face it people put in conservative
> > collectors to reduce storage leaks and often get the opposite. 
> 
> I agree with what you say; my observation was this: the fact of the
> mutator asking the question "why is this object alive?" is enough to
> keep the object alive. Unless there are weak pointers (or, say, the
> question is being asked by a debugging process).

We have weak pointers which are excellent for the process.