Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Sunday 11 February 2001 19:08, Jan Dubois wrote:
> However, I couldn't solve the problem of "deterministic destruction
> behavior": Currently Perl will call DESTROY on any object as soon as the
> last reference to it goes out of scope.  This becomes important if the
> object own scarce external resources (e.g. file handles or database
> connections) that are only freed during DESTROY.  Postponing DESTROY until
> an indeterminate time in the future can lead to program failures due to
> resource exhaustion.

But doesn't resource exhaustion usually trigger garbage collection and 
resource reallocation?  (Not that this addresses the remainder of your 
post.)

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