D2 weak references

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-04-20 18:31:28 -0400, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> said:

> Yeah.  The unfortunate tradeoff is that finalizers are run while all these
> app threads are suspended, and if these finalizers enter a synchronized
> block they're likely to deadlock.  This happened enough with the Phobos
> GC that I was motivated to make the change in the first place.  It's
> unfortunate, but at least WeakRef is the only victim of the current
> approach that I'm aware of.

Then can't you notify the weak refs, restart the world, and then 
finalize the objects for real?


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