Re: using finalizers

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Fri 31 Dec 2021 at 22:39, LdBeth <andpuke@foxmail.com> wrote:
> If you mean you are looking for a finalizer interface similar to what
> Common Lisp's trivial-garbarge library provides, there was one in
> Emacs Lisp before `make-finalizer' was provided.
>
> https://nullprogram.com/blog/2014/01/27/
>
> Both that one and trivial-garbarge are based on weak references.
> However that is actually not very good because that impose a lot of
> jobs on GC, at least for Emacs the garbage collector is not as good as
> many Common Lisp's ones.

yes, that seems like the thing I was after
thanks for the material for further study