Persistance

Alaric Williams alaric@alaric-williams.com
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:31:47 +0100 (BST)


On 27 Oct 1999, Laurent Martelli wrote:

> None of the policies seems to be better than the other. With the first
> one, you have to do gc by hand from times to times otherwise you'll
> run out of memory.

Why? GC will still reclaim unreference objects; but referenced objects can
be expected to survive reboots/global extinctions/etc...

ABW

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