--- On Sat, 4/11/09, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

> From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml and Boehm
> To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
> Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 10:27 AM
> 
> Also, don't forget that many people incorrectly claim that smart pointers 
> deallocate at the earliest possible point when, in fact, they typically keep 
> values alive longer than necessary.

Could elaborate on this? I'm having a hard time envisioning a situation where GC could free memory that smart pointers would not free. 

  -EdK

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