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| From: | Marcus G. Daniels |
| Subject: | Re: [Swarm-Support] Time efficiency of at$createActionTo$message |
| Date: | Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:27:39 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211 |
Why doesn't Swarm use a retain count mechanism for preserving objects (like in OS X) instead of an explicit drop mechanism? Is it just an artifact of design, or was their a principled reason for it?
There was once talk of having create-time options to a Zone that would have whatever garbage collection policies, but none were ever implemented. Talk is cheap.
Someone could implement that..
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