whiteknight/gc_finalize branch

Brian Gernhardt benji at silverinsanity.com
Mon May 7 17:54:35 UTC 2012


On May 6, 2012, at 8:13 AM, James E Keenan wrote:

> Can you provide for the quasi-layperson a definition of "GC finalization."

Essentially, a garbage collection pass when the interpreter exits.  We currently leak PMCs still live at the end of the program, which means we don't do things like close active FileHandles.  By doing a final collection, we allow these cleanup routines to run.

~~ benabik




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