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I love the idea of ref counting, but I'm unsure about the handling of memory cycles. In a plain ref counting implementation, these will not be cleaned up, resul
by tomsmeding 9y ago
I love the idea of ref counting, but I'm unsure about the handling of memory cycles. In a plain ref counting implementation, these will not be cleaned up, resulting in a memory leak.
I didn't find anything on cycles in the linked page, maybe the problem is not relevant in most real-world clojure code?
- derefr 9y agoI don't know about "pure" Clojure (as this is), but in "pure" Erlang (which has similar semantics), you simply can't make a reference cycle. Functional languages in general don't really allow them.
- nakkaya 9y agoAuthor here. As derefr said with Clojure semantics you can not create cycles.
- tomsmeding 9y agoThanks, now I think about it, that makes a lot of sense.