Re: Are NIF resources meant to be destroyed immediately on GC?

Sean Hinde <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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> This a really nice change. It opens the door to resource destructors being safe for closing external resources like database handles that might take a while.
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> Super cool!
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> Sorry to disappoint, but no.
> By ”scheduled” I just meant “put in run queue to be executed at a later time”. Destructors are still executed by a normal scheduler threads and not dirty schedulers.

Ah well! I still think it would be pretty handy. It would make that kind of code much easier to get right, safer, and potentially more efficient.

Sean
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