Re: [go-nuts] Huge map[string]*Object and GC where *Object is from sync.Pool

[Peter Mogensen]

On 09/28/2018 03:11 PM, Robert Engels wrote:
> His statement is correct. First of all, a weak reference in java is not
> like a weak pointer in C++, at least they are not needed to break
> cycles, as the GC is immune to that issue. The difference is that a weak
> hashmap uses weak references to refer to the contained objects so that
> they will be collected if nothing else refers to them, similar to a Lru
> cache. In this case it is a uintptr which is not a reference to
> anything, it is just an integer. 

Sure... Ok... it sounds like it might be the same thing I was
considering whether could be done.

In other words.. using a map as index into another datastructure without
the map values being considered by the garbage collector as references.

/Peter

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