Large Arrays and GC

[Fawzi Mohamed]

On 2008-05-09 18:20:19 +0200, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> said:

> dsimcha Wrote:
>> Does anyone know of another way to manually delete associative arrays?
> 
> Time ago I have asked that question, and someone has shown me a way, 
> you can find a modified version of it as the clear() function in my 
> libs:
> http://www.fantascienza.net/leonardo/so/libs_d.zip
> [...]
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

Nice that there is a workaround, but shouldn't an AA:
1) possibly contain pointers
2) have no extrnal pointers pointing to its inside

so is it possible to tell the gc to ignore internal pointer to it, but 
still (if kept) scan all the pointers contained in it?

Fawzi