Are NIF resources meant to be destroyed immediately on GC?

[Sean Hinde]

>> I agree. My use case for this was building a nif for the oracle oci bindings.
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> Uhm... But this is exactly what ports are supposed to handle and it's
> exactly how they work. Why shoehorning NIFs here?

For sure we could have used a port. I think some earlier version of the library used a port.

NIFs involve a whole lot *less* shoehorning though - the programming model of NIFs is really so much nicer than all the complexity of building a multithreaded port program. Why write all your own when dirty NIFs are so beautiful.

Sean

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