[cap-talk] Video of Marc Stiegler's talk at Google : "The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Secure Computing"

[Kenton Varda]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/wiki/index.cgi/AliceWishList#head-88e0f498e339faa02ae0f53f1c2167afe9e8be4d
>
> p.s. i always wondered if one could just have a non-deterministic gc
> check at the exit of every scope for zero-ref things implementing the
> IDisposing/finalized interface, to get safe RAIInit-esque behaviour.
>

In most GC algorithms, checking for lack of references of a single object is
non-trivial -- it would essentially require running a complete GC sweep to
be reliable.
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