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Definitions of ephemeron in various dictionaries:
noun - anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form
A short-lived thing.
EPHEMERON - An ephemeron is a data structure that solves two related problems in garbage collected systems. On the one hand, an ephemeron provides a notificatio...
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Short-termist's record hour no mere accident |
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Apr 24 2003 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form |
An insect that lives only for a day or a few days. |
A short-lived thing. |
Printed matter of passing interest. |
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An ephemeron is a data structure that solves two related problems in garbage collected systems. On the one hand, an ephemeron provides a notification when some object is about to be collected. On the other hand, an ephemeron allows data to be associated with some object without creating a reference to that object that will prevent the object from being collected. An ephemeron is a key-value pair, where the key is the object that the ephemeron guards, notifying the system when that object is collectable, and the value can be any data associated with the object such as a property list, and which may be empty. Since the elements of the property list may refer back to the key, they may prevent collection of that key. But the ephemeron is treated specially by the garbage collector. The value field is not traced until the key is found to be reachable from the system roots other than through ephemeron keys. The set of ephemerons whose keys are only reachable from ephemeron keys are the |