On 8/23/17 11:59 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/23/2017 7:37 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
How do dynamic closures work without the GC?
They don't allocate the closure on the GC heap. (Or do I have
static/dynamic closures backwards?)
I thought "closure" means allocating the stack onto the heap so you can
return the delegate with its context intact.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_programming) :
"A language implementation cannot easily support full closures if its
run-time memory model allocates all automatic variables on a linear
stack. In such languages, a function's automatic local variables are
deallocated when the function returns. However, a closure requires that
the free variables it references survive the enclosing function's
execution. Therefore, those variables must be allocated so that they
persist until no longer needed, typically via heap allocation, rather
than on the stack, and their lifetime must be managed so they survive
until all closures referencing them have are no longer in use."
-Steve
