From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker)
Subject: Re: Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection)
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 13:59:08 GMT
Date: 1994-12-01T13:59:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hbakerD04xIK.FGL@netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3bjfep$9ss@gamma.ois.com
In article <3bjfep$9ss@gamma.ois.com> beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith) writes:
>Good point. If you know you have other strong references to an
>object, you can use weak pointers for interators and such. That
>helps a little. I would recommend using weak pointers for any object
>that doesn't have a strong pointer to it declared in the immediate
>or enclosing scope.
(In case anyone else is following this thread)
Please note that your use of the term 'weak pointer' is nonstandard.
'Weak pointers' are used in tracing/coping GC's to refer to pointers
which aren't traced, but _are_ updated, possibly to NIL, by the
garbage collector.
A non-increment/decrement pointer in a reference counted system I
have called a 'deferred increment' pointers. I have a recent paper
in Sigplan Notices (and my ftp/www archive) which investigates
this issue more thoroughly.
Henry Baker
Read (192.100.81.1) ftp.netcom.com:/pub/hb/hbaker/README for ftp-able papers.
WWW archive: ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/hb/hbaker/home.html
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[not found] ` <3be0mh$1p7@gamma.ois.com>
[not found] ` <3bfprn$okr@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
1994-11-29 21:27 ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) R. William Beckwith
1994-11-30 2:27 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-11-30 18:59 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-01 3:20 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 3:51 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-01 13:59 ` Henry G. Baker [this message]
1994-12-02 4:26 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-02 21:37 ` Hans Boehm
1994-12-03 15:17 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-09 22:07 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-11 23:59 ` Gary McKee
1994-12-12 5:04 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 12:46 ` R. William Beckwith
1994-12-16 19:35 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-17 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-20 5:24 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-12 9:36 ` Robb Nebbe
1994-12-13 16:12 ` Henry G. Baker
[not found] ` <DAG.94Nov30090717@bellman.control.lth.se>
1994-11-30 16:39 ` David Weller
1994-11-30 17:58 ` Erik Naggum
1994-11-30 23:14 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-09 14:19 ` Ada 95 is the name Tucker Taft
1994-12-09 22:33 ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-11 18:59 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-11 20:05 ` Pat Rogers
1994-12-16 1:01 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-12 14:50 ` Garlington KE
1994-12-13 21:48 ` Tucker Taft
1994-12-14 12:44 ` Gentle
1994-12-14 17:34 ` Jean D. Ichbiah
1994-12-10 10:10 ` Marc Wachowitz
1994-12-11 21:37 ` Bob Duff
1994-12-02 23:41 ` Reference Counting (was Re: Searching Method for Incremental Garbage Collection) Bob Duff
1994-12-03 8:16 ` Bill Birch
[not found] ` <3be0mh$1p7@ga <3bii2g$kn2@news.parc.xerox.com>
1994-12-01 4:58 ` Kevin Warne
1994-12-02 21:58 ` Hans Boehm
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1994-12-02 17:32 ` Henry G. Baker
1994-12-05 20:59 ` Robert Firth
1994-12-06 14:15 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-04 1:06 ` Rick Busdiecker
1994-12-04 18:57 ` R. William Beckwith
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