Garbage collection of binaries

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

> Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> > Binaries are referenced counted and are removed when their conter reach
> > zero.
>
> This gives me another approach: when you're done with a binary, zero out
> all references to it. The binary will go away immediately.

Well.. The only place where the reference count is decremented is in the
GC and when a process dies.
To manually decrement the reference count and promise the system to never
use the address again is not a verry functional way of doing things.
.joppe

>
> (This might be impossible if the reference is created as an intermediate
> result. It might also interfere with tail recursion. Using reference
> counts in a functional language doesn't strike me as a particularly good
> solution in this light...)
>
> Regards,
> Jo
>

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