>> The Weak module is never the right tool for implementing a cache. > >I'm not disputing this, but I would like you hear your thoughts on >this topic. Why?
Weak references go away at the whim of the GC, not when it would be useful to flush the cache. A longer explanation and more about weak references can be found in the Cuoq/Doligez article in last year's workshop on ML (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1411308). _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
