Charles and Frank , With all the talk on weak references etc, do you know of any good documents online that cover this in detail ?. It would be good to glean a view of the tricks and techniques people have come up with on RB on this issue over the years
On 6/1/07 20:31, "Charles Yeomans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Frank Condello wrote: > >> On 6-Jan-07, at 9:55 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote: >>> >>> To be honest, I can't remember another situation except for trees >>> where I actually needed weak refs. Well maybe a double-linked >>> list... but my tree is essentially a double linked list with a bit >>> ontop. >> >> A self-cleaning file cache is another a useful case. > > Managers for persistent objects -- you don't want two copies of the > same object in existence, but you also don't want to eventually hold > an entire table in RAM. I use this quite a bit. > > Charles Yeomans > _______________________________________________ > 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>
