On Wed, Aug 2, 2017, at 08:32 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > <enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote: > > On 31.07.2017 13:53, smaug wrote: > >> Reference counting is needed always if both JS and C++ can have a > >> pointer to the object. > > > > Anybody already thought about garbage collection ? > > Reference counting is a garbage collection technique. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_counting where the > introductory paragraphs and the first section specifically refer to it > as a garbage collection technique. Or consult _The Garbage Collection > Handbook_ by Jones, Hosking, and Moss, which has an entire chapter > devoted to reference counting. > > Note also that Gecko's reference counting tends to be cheaper than the > reference counting assumed in the literature, since many of Gecko's > reference-counted objects can use non-thread-safe reference counting, > as said objects are only ever accessed on a single thread. (Compare > http://robert.ocallahan.org/2012/06/computer-science-in-beijing.html) > > Changing the garbage collection technique used by our C++ code to > something other than reference counting would be a large project of > dubious worth.
Also we tried that once and it didn't work well for various reasons: https://wiki.mozilla.org/XPCOMGC -Ted _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
