Re: global destruction

2005-09-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Sep 10, 2005, at 21:58, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:37:33PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: parrot --leak-test # or the same: parrot --destroy-at-end should free all memory allocated (but doesn't yet). Are these likely to get implemented soon? It is impl

Re: global destruction

2005-09-10 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:37:33PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > >Second question is that optionally perl 5 can run with complete global > >destruction. This is primarily intended for embedded interpreters, where > >the default implementation (just exit the process to fre

Re: global destruction

2005-09-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:37:33PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > >For starters, in glossary.pod I'm failing to find definitions for > >"destruction" and "finalisation". One is about cleanup actions on objects/ > >PMCs that need something actively cleaned up, rendering acti

Re: global destruction

2005-09-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark wrote: For starters, in glossary.pod I'm failing to find definitions for "destruction" and "finalisation". One is about cleanup actions on objects/ PMCs that need something actively cleaned up, rendering active objects down to bare memory, and the other is about reclaiming bare mem