weak, soft, phantom

[memememe]

I see weak reference on the .net api, but I do not see soft or phantom, are
they supported on .net?

 

[Mike Schilling]

I see weak reference on the .net api, but I do not see soft or phantom, are
they supported on .net?

No. More seriously, neither are ReferenceQueues.

By the way, do you have a real use for PhantomReferences? I've never seen
one.

 

[Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]]

memememe,
System.WeakReference supports a short or long weak reference by a parameter
to the constructor. a short weak reference does not track resurrection of
the target object, a long weak reference tracks resurrection of the target
object.

There was a discussion about this in microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.clr
about September 4th 2003. If the following does not take you to the thread,
Search for a thread with a subject of "Soft and weak references".

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...c372bc%240d2480a0%24a001280a%40phx.gbl&rnum=1

Hope this helps
Jay

 

[memememe]

im there with you, I have never seen anyone use phantom refs, I just wanted
to know if they are supported since I was explaining to my boss what java
has and why, and whether .net has that.