Re: GC: what is better, reuse or avoid cloning?

[Sam Tregar]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Buddha M Buck wrote:

> I think what he's thinking (in C terms) would be more like the following:

Right.  It already has a technical name - copy-on-write.  I should have
made it more clear that I recognized the intended mechanism.  I was trying
to demonstrate that Perl-level mechanisms already existed to do value
aliasing.  I was also trying to show that what he is suggesting is a lot
like aliasing with some simple copy-on-write STORE magic.  For some reason
I thought that by pointing that out I could relieve him of his bizarre
worries about garbage collecting things with references.

I probably should have just gone to bed instead.

-sam