- From: Arnaud Le Hors <lehors@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:39:47 +0200
- To: www-dom@w3.org
keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote: > > >In Java, at least, this is a serious issue, because the vagaries > >of GC make it impossible to tell particularly early whether or > >not a NodeList is in use. > > In fact, I looked at such an implementation, and quickly decided Java > wasn't well suited to it and/or vice versa. Since Java's GC-based, making > the Nodes aware of the NodeLists means the NodeList objects have to persist > as long as the Nodes they're based on do; there's no architected way to > tell the DOM that they're no longer needed. I know we can't rely on this yet but the WeakReferences in Java 1.2 will greatly help address this problem. -- Arnaud
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