Hijacking thread - is there any discussion about soft references? Soft referenced objects can be garbage-collected if engine "decide that memory is low enough to warrant it".
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:35 PM Gus Caplan <[email protected]> wrote: > Check this out: > https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-management > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:44 PM Ben Manashirov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> It's easy to leak data in javascript because you need to call free(), or >> destroy() for various objects, for example when interfacing with OpenGL, >> emscripten, or some other object that needs to do cleanup beyond what a >> garbage collector can handle. I really want guaranteed destructors in >> javascript, it will make my life so much easier. I don't want anything >> similar to try-release that is introduced to Java because that doesn't >> solve the problem, it just moves the problem of having to call free/destroy >> to having to remember to list it in a try-release statement. Perhaps add a >> destructor() or destroy() as many libraries use destroy(). and if one >> exists treat the object with care to have it destroyed as soon as it's no >> longer referenced. Doing it for destroy() may break existing code so a >> another name would probably be better that people can migrate to, perhaps a >> special keyword in class{} interface 'destructor', and if one exists then >> special care will be given and a autogenerated 'destroy()' function is >> automatically created that a person can call to do destruction if they >> desire to do so earlier than when no more references are pointing to it. >> >> I hope this discussion will lead to some solution. >> >> Thank you. >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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