http://dev.clojure.org/jira This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 4.4 649 25-07-2011 http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-746 Clojure <p>I just ran into <a href="http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-444">http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-444</a> in clojure 1.2 and think the anlaysis there missed the cause of the issue.</p> <p>Reading <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ref/ReferenceQueue.html#poll(">http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ref/ReferenceQueue.html#poll(</a>) suggests poll removes an item from the queue.</p> <p>In Util.clearCache, there are two calls to rq.poll() with discarded return values, with the result that some of the enqueued soft references are not being removed from cache (ie the keyword table)</p> CLJ-746

Unreference keywords not correctly removed from keyword table (Utils.clearCache)

Defect Major Closed Declined Unassigned Hugo Duncan Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:09:11 -0600 Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:49:42 -0600 Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:49:42 -0600 Release 1.3 0 0 <p>The references do not need to be removed using the queue. They can be (and are) removed by directly walking the values of the map. The queue serves only to notify that this work needs to be done.</p> Global Rank