[gclist] Ephemerons [Was Re: Finalization and death notices]
Simon Peyton-Jones
simonpj@microsoft.com
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 01:36:22 -0700
| Read
| Ephemerons: a new finalization mechanism; Barry
| Hayes; Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGPLAN
| conference on Object-oriented programming
| systems, languages and applications, 1997, Pages
| 176 - 183=20
If you find that useful, you might also be interested in
Stretching the storage manager: weak pointers=20
and stable names in Haskell
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/weak.htm
In this paper we refine the ephemeron idea a little. (The
actual discussion about ephemerons themselves is on p20.)
Simon