Hi all,

I'm trying to understand the object retention behavior when subseq is 
applied to sorted collections.

A quick glance at the source of 
APersistentTreeMap.java<https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/PersistentTreeMap.java>
 suggests 
that the reified subseq only contains pointers to nodes to the left or 
right of the initial value node. Assuming I'm reading correctly, that means 
subseq should never retain unaccessible nodes in the original sorted map or 
set.

Here's an experiment that seems to back that up:
https://gist.github.com/brandonbloom/6101597

This produces a few questions:

   1. Is my experiment good? 
   2. What is the cause of the "double" finalizations? It seems like every 
   object has an initial speculative finalize fail on it... Why?
   3. Am I correct in saying that subseq will never retain extra objects 
   from the original tree?

Thanks,
Brandon

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