On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:11:06AM +0200, Vladimir Marangozov wrote: > Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > > > How important is it to fix these problems when gc is disabled? > > ... > > Please let me know what you think. If the concensus is to fix them, I > > keep working on them. I do still plan on looking at the few memory > > problems still left even with gc turned on. > > I think that if we start relaxing our attention w.r.t. refcount policies, > cyclic refs and the resulting mem leaks _in_the_core_, just because gc > helps in hiding bad practice, we'll suffer more than you would in the > attempt to fix these things. Agreed. The core should never create refcount problems. With or without GC, that is just bad policy. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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