[cap-talk] Reference count based garbage collection seen as flawed

[Sandro Magi]

On 1/4/2012 2:03 PM, David Barbour wrote:
> Treating all objects as local causes problems due to conditions of 
> disruption and indeterministic latency.

You can isolate remote references behind an abstraction that only 
exposes methods that don't have disruption/latency problems. Something 
like E's reference semantics:

   Foo localFoo;
   Remote<Foo> remoteFoo;

Other options are mobile code, but the above distinction integrates well 
with current languages, and mobile code does not.

Sandro