Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: VList

[Alain F. <Ala...@in...>]

Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> I think there *might* be a problem with doing this. I don't remember the 
> details right now, but I do remember being quite sure it was actually 
> necessary to fill up using NULLs instead of copies. (Obviously it had 
> something to do with the extra references causing objects to hang around 
> for longer than necessary).

I've thought about that, and I don't see any problem. Since the "used 
part" of the array is read-only, I don't see any problem. If the value 
used as an initializer is referenced through any cell of the array, then 
the first cell - which still contain the same value - is also referenced 
as well.

-- Alain