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Re: On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures

by davido (Cardinal)
on Dec 11, 2006 at 06:25 UTC ( [id://588989]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures

Let's hope the reference count on our universe never drops to zero. Universal garbage collection sounds detrimental to humanity. ;)


Dave

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Re^2: On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures (apocalypse)
by tye (Sage) on Dec 11, 2006 at 07:12 UTC

    That made me wish I could find an old quote I saved. Something like "But I'm worried about the efficiency of this, especially during global destruction."

    - tye        

Re^2: On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures
by jbert (Priest) on Dec 11, 2006 at 12:35 UTC
    Well, as long as we're observing the universe, that'd be OK.

    And we could find out if the universe is holding a reference to each of it's observers1 by getting everyone to ignore someone and see if they disappear.

    1 - because then we'll have a ref loop and the universe won't disappear if everyone completely ignores everybody else. Which would be nice.

    Update: the "not disappearing" would be nice. Not the "ignoring everybody".

      ...everyone completely ignores everybody else....

                  That sounds vaguely antisocial!

Re^2: On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures
by themage (Friar) on Dec 11, 2006 at 12:43 UTC
    Hi davido,

    I think that there are only some local garbage collections implemented.

    An Universal Garbage collection will be implemented somewhere in the future. Let's hope that in a compatible version of Universe.

    TheMage
    Talking Web
Re^2: On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures
by ambrus (Abbot) on Dec 11, 2006 at 17:34 UTC

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