Its a good point. Its one of the valid common problems with reference counting approach - cyclic references. maybe it would be good if RS were able to offer one of the other tracing garbage collection methods as an switchable alternative in order to address cases where an RB app is leading to a large number of objects never being deleted due to cyclical references.
Maybe RS could build in the open source Hans Boehm collector which is used in both C# and Objective C. On 5/1/07 21:37, "Norman Palardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 05, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Mars Saxman wrote: > >> >> On Jan 5, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Norman Palardy wrote: >> >>> NO garbage collection >>> When a reference count = 0 the object is deleted immediately >> >> Reference counting is one of many possible garbage collection >> strategies. > > Just a an aside this is how I was taught the difference between > memory management (reference counting) and garbage collection (like > in Lisp, java, etc) > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_% > 28computer_science%29> > > Note that the section on reference counting specifically mentions > cycles which is an issue we have with RB objects referring to each > other and the main application o longer having a reference to either > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
