Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] catch exceptions in finalizers, remove dynamic resizing of finalizer vector

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

On Jun 19 2012, Felix wrote:

> > each object.  The latter takes up more memory when you don't have a lot
> > of finalizers (and finalizers are slow, so it's best not to generate too
> > many of them).
>
> Exactly. Finalizers are junk. Finalizers are the last resort. Creating
> excessively many of them is a design error. 
>
> (That was just for the record)

Anecdotal evidence: I already began to convert my code, killing
finalizers the other day.

If I only knew a recipe to get around them, I'd vote to not have them
at all.

/Jerry
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