07:50
Having references would be useful in the JVM.
07:53
So Reference will make things much easier to implement, at least to not
needlessly create tons of objects when loading classes and I can keep some
references around. Things will go faster and memory will be reduced which
is what I want really. It also greatly will simplify things too. Only thing
to consider is that with reference counting, how do I want to handle these
things? I think I am going to need a chunk bit on an object which says if
an allocated object is held by a reference, that way I can do the
referencing magic stuff. Another thing is that there will need to be some
kind of reference lock or similar. Actually... what if I had for every
allocation a special access object or similar, like a chain of sorts? The
only problem is that then I will need to handle references that get cleaned
up because their pointers would be stale. But Reference would be the one
that adds itself to the special pointer area, so it would have to remember.
But it does get complicated still this way and memory does leak.
10:11
I am just going to wait until it is needed, then implement it. Also when it comes to class loading, I need to get it working first so I have something.