Ruling out arbitrary cost copy construction?

[Sean Kelly]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> Steven Schveighoffer Wrote:
> > 
> > It is quite possible that a thread exits while there are active, non-GC'd  
> > objects owned by it in the heap.  There's no way to determine this when  
> > the thread exits without running a GC collection, which is unacceptable.
> 
> Right.  But it doesn't matter who finalizes this data, since it won't be competing with the only other thread that actually referenced it.

What I meant was that it won't be competing with the owner of any unshared data referenced by this object, since that thread has terminated.