From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-04-30T20:44:07+09:00
Subject: Re: object scope and cleanup

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:08 AM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

> With garbage collectors,
>
> out_of_scope == ready_for_destruction

Actually, "out of scope" isn't really the right concept here, the
storage taken up by an object is eligible to be reclaimed by a
properly implemented GC iff it is not reachable by transitive closure
from one or more of a known set of root objects (like globals, and
active stack frames).

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