Re: [Gnash-dev] Garbage collector

[Eric Hughes]

At 12:24 PM 6/15/2007, strk wrote:
> Exactly. Not that Function.prototype.constructor == Function, so it does
> not even take user intervention for creating circular dependencies.
> It's builtin  for ActionScript.

For everyone else:  It took me a minute to understand the significance of 
this, but what it says is that every function declaration generates a 
perimeter=2 closed cycle which is impervious to ordinary RC methods.

For strk:  Since this case is so common, is it possible and feasible to 
make the constructor reference to the function a weak reference, as an 
optimization?  If so, might this not be a good, relatively isolated place 
in the code to deploy and test weak references?

Eric