[Bug 10834] Garbage collection is the wrong level of abstraction

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10834

--- Comment #5 from Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> 2010-09-30 08:09:02 UTC ---
Note that while gecko is failing the acid3 test in question, it has nothing to
do with the problem mentioned in comment 3. It is purely due to technical
limitations in how we used to do memory management, and the fact that it takes
a while to migrate memory management model (we used to use pure refcounting,
now we use refcounting plus cycle collection).

I'll have to check if it's correct that all mentions of GC is really
informative and that the only normative definition is defining that "GC must
never have side effects". I was under the impression that that wasn't the case,
but I'll double-check.

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