GC: Yeah, everybody knows how it works. How does it?

2009-05-07 Thread Georg Wrede
Frits van Bommel wrote: Daniel Keep wrote: Frits van Bommel wrote: Daniel Keep wrote: When your class' dtor is called, you CANNOT say whether any of the references into GC-controlled memory you hold are still valid. You forgot to add: unless you know for a *fact* they're referenced from a

Re: GC: Yeah, everybody knows how it works. How does it?

2009-05-07 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Leandro Lucarella (llu...@gmail.com)'s article (from the bottom up, in chronological order, of course) If you want to know why you don't have ordering guarantees, it's because when the garbage is swept, you don't do it by following the connectivity graph (as you do when you mark

Re: GC: Yeah, everybody knows how it works. How does it?

2009-05-07 Thread Leandro Lucarella
dsimcha, el 7 de mayo a las 16:57 me escribiste: == Quote from Leandro Lucarella (llu...@gmail.com)'s article (from the bottom up, in chronological order, of course) If you want to know why you don't have ordering guarantees, it's because when the garbage is swept, you don't do it by