some thoughts on ClassValue

[John Rose]

On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Jochen Theodorou <blackdrag at gmx.org> wrote:

> per application and imagine the 
> application is loaded and unloaded several times... a meta class is a 
> large structure with a lot of objects. I could very easily write a 
> Groovy script for such an environment that will eat up all the memory in 
> this new meta class system while currently it should run with some big 
> gc runs, but still run endlessly.

Each instance of the Groovy runtime will use a distinct ClassValue instance.

If the ClassValue instance goes dead, then all the values (for each class) bound using that instance should go dead also.

If they don't it's a bug.

— John
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