On 7/6/14, 4:11 PM, Filip Pizlo wrote:
My reading of the linked Mozilla discussions seems to be that some GC implementors think it's hard to get the feature right
I'm not sure how you can possibly read https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.internals/V__5zqll3zc/hLJiNqd8Xq8J that way. That post isn't even from a GC implementor and says nothing about implementation issues!
I think that post presents the strongest argument I know against the "use GC to reclaim your non-memory resources" argument, and the summary is that while that approach looks promising at first glance in practice it leads to resources not being reclaimed when they should be because the GC is not aiming for whatever sort of resource management those particular resources want.
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