From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-11-28T15:27:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26746] Re: [OT] Re: KDE or GNOME curiosity question...

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:26544] Re: [OT] Re: KDE or GNOME curiosity question..."
    on 01/11/27, "mark hahn" <mchahn@facelink.com> writes:

|> Circular references will cause the object to stay around indefinitely
|
|I was thinking of the reference counting as being totally seperate from gc.
|So ref counting would have no effect one way or the other as to how long
|objects "stay around".  The only effect of the ref counting would be to call
|the special method which is not the gc finalizer.  I don't have a name for
|this method yet, maybe "pre-finalizer"?

Hmm, I'm not sure how it works and how much useful.  At least implicit
ref counting requires write barrier opened.

							matz.