Are NIF resources meant to be destroyed immediately on GC?

[Sean Hinde]

> 
> This a really nice change. It opens the door to resource destructors being safe for closing external resources like database handles that might take a while.
>  
> Super cool!
>  
> Sorry to disappoint, but no.
> By ”scheduled” I just meant “put in run queue to be executed at a later time”. Destructors are still executed by a normal scheduler threads and not dirty schedulers.

Ah well! I still think it would be pretty handy. It would make that kind of code much easier to get right, safer, and potentially more efficient.

Sean

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