Re: [JS-internals] Weak references

2013-11-07 Thread Andrew McCreight
For completeness (and irrelevant to this particular message I am replying...) I should mention that Bill pointed out in email that the cycle collector can't be completely oblivious to weak references, as I said before. Right now, when the CC identifies a JS object as garbage, it doesn't do anyt

Re: [JS-internals] Weak references

2013-11-07 Thread Till Schneidereit
This topic has come up on es-discuss again[1], with Mark Miller referencing[2] an older post of his to the list that contains a proposal for mitigating the issues with making GCs visible[3]. [1]: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2013-November/034619.html [2]: https://mail.mozilla.org