[LLVMdev] x86 unwind support[MESSAGE NOT SCANNED]

Eli Friedman
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:33:06 -0000

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Mark Shannon<marks at dcs.gla.ac.uk>
wrote:
> For languages with finalizers such as Python or Java, a special
> finalizer thread can do the cleaning up lazily once the GC has collected
> the dead objects.

Both Java and Python support "finally" clauses, which are roughly
equivalent in this context.

-Eli