On Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:21:36 PM UTC+2, Gary Trakhman wrote: > > I just thought about this recently, but does the value-oriented nature of > clojure mostly void the need for a cycles-aware GC? It seems like you > won't ever have cycles without identities, or pointers (java references). > Maybe this would be a problem only when you need identities, ie deftype or > defprotocol implementing objects. >
Sure thing, the value-oriented nature removes a lot of cycles in practice. However, you may for instance have an atom which contain itself, so they are not nonexistant. As such, the GC cannot be completely cycle-ignorant, but perhaps it doesn't have to be efficient at finding them either. Another place where cycles happen are in (mutually) recursive functions, they may be iffy if you define many recursive anonymous functions at runtime. -- Jean Niklas L'orange -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
