On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Steve Fink <sphink at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/22/2014 07:45 AM, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>> >
>> > * Only objects that have been used as keys in FastWeakMaps would ever
>> > have their [[Shadow]] set, so this could also be allocated on demand,
>> > given only a bit saying whether it is present. Besides this storage of
>> > this bit, there is no other effect or cost on any non-weakmap objects.
>> >
>> > * Since non-weakmap code doesn't need to test this bit, there is zero
>> > runtime cost on non-weakmap code.
>> >
>> > * Whether an object has been used as a key or not (and therefore
>> > whether an extra shadow has been allocated or not), normal non-weak
>> > property lookup on the object is unaffected, and pays no additional
>> cost.
>>
>> Maybe it's because I work on a garbage collector, but I always think of
>> the primary cost of WeakMaps as being the GC. The above analysis doesn't
>> take GC into account.
>>
>
> I should have been more explicit, but GC costs are almost my entire point.
> These costs aside, my FastWeakMaps are more expensive in all ways than
> SlowWeakMaps, though only by a constant factor, since each FastWeakMap
> operation must also perform the corresponding SlowWeakMap operation.
>
>
>
>>
>> In the straightforward iterative implementation, you record all of the
>> live WeakMaps found while scanning through the heap. Then you go through
>> them, checking each key to see if it is live. For each such key, you
>> recursively mark the value. This marking can discover new live WeakMaps,
>> so you iterate to a fixed point.
>>
>
> That is when you find yourself doing an ephemeron collection. The point of
> the transposed representation is to collect most ephemeron garbage using
> conventional collection. Consider
>
> var fastField = new FastWeakMap();
> var slowField = new SlowWeakMap();
>
> var transientKey = {};
>
> var fastValue = {};
> var slowValue = {};
>
> fastField.set(key, fastValue);
> slowField.set(key, slowValue);
>

I don't mean to nit-pick, but "key" is "transientKey", right?

Rick
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:

> ```js
> fastField.set(key, fastValue);
> slowField.set(key, slowValue);
> ```

I don't mean to nit-pick, but "key" is "transientKey", right?