Re: [Caml-list] RE: understanding weak

2008-11-01 Thread kirillkh
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:08:17AM +, Jon Harrop wrote: You will be interested in the following important article: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1411308 Is this freely available anywhere? rant

Re: [Caml-list] RE: understanding weak

2008-10-31 Thread Jon Harrop
On Thursday 30 October 2008 18:48:26 CUOQ Pascal wrote: Warren Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to understand better how ocaml's weak pointers operate. You will be interested in the following important article: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1411308 Is this freely available

Re: [Caml-list] RE: understanding weak

2008-10-30 Thread Warren Harris
On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:48 AM, CUOQ Pascal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to understand better how ocaml's weak pointers operate. You will be interested in the following important article: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1411308 :) Thank

Re: [Caml-list] RE: understanding weak

2008-10-30 Thread Alain Frisch
Warren Harris wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 11:48 AM, CUOQ Pascal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short: don't use weak pointers to make caches. Thanks for the advice -- but I thought this was exactly what weak hash tables were intended for. Although there is some similarity between a weak