Pretty much every experienced garbage collector developer I’ve met hate GC finalization mechanisms and consider them unreliable user-level bug farms
... but they end up implementing them anyway.
@andywingohttps://github.com/tc39/proposal-weakrefs/issues/78 …
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I can't tell which part of my tweet you mean, but I agree in all cases. :)
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The fact that malloc and free is “an implementation dependent bag of heuristics selected to support a specific set of memory resource management goals”. Modern mallocs even incorporate pseudo-GCs to rebalance thread caches.
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