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These backpointers sound kind of like the ownership analog to weak references.
by jpfed 9y ago
These backpointers sound kind of like the ownership analog to weak references.
- Animats 9y agoRight, they are basically weak references, but more efficient ones. Weak references involve not just a counter, but something that gets deallocated when the counter goes to zero. That adds complexity to a trivial operation.