[Larceny-users] Weak references

William D Clinger will at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Jul 24 17:47:03 EDT 2007


David Rush wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that both PLT and Gambit have weak-reference and/or
> object-finalization systems and I will try to take a look in the next
> few days  to express a preference.

Okay.

> In the meantime, I guess I will
> have to find out just how much memory I'm going to end up using
> without fancy cache expiration machinery.  It's always good to measure
> first :)

Bounded caches with timeouts are easy to implement
in Larceny.

Will



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