What is the reason for the additional indirection in Handle?

Keith McGuigan Keith.McGuigan at Sun.COM
Mon Sep 8 07:56:23 PDT 2008


Ramón García wrote:
> What is exactly the function for garbage collection? Does it just make
> it known that the oop is used, so it is not deleted, or in addition it
> handles the case where the oop is moved by a copying collector?

It does both.

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- Keith



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