Re: [Chicken-hackers] Minutes of 2012-06-14 IRC meeting

[John Cowan]

Alaric Snell-Pym scripsit:

> Felix thinks he might have fixed the exceptions-in-finalizers thing, but
> worries that finalizers should really run in a dedicated thread rather
> than in arbitrary threads.

Indeed they should.  In the JVM, finalizers originally ran in ordinary
random threads, but there were so many problems that the design was
switched to running on a separate thread.  The CLR does the same.  See
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/projects/sumatra/hallofshame/monitor-finalizer.html
(which predates the switch) for details.

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