What is the status of Weak References?

[Bill Frantz]

On 3/2/13 at 3:47 AM, bruant.d at gmail.com (David Bruant) wrote:

>"I won't say it's absolutely better than WeakRefs and it may 
>not apply to the data binding case (?), but it's an interesting 
>pattern to keep in mind."

Speaking from ignorance here.

One advantage of the "resubscribe for every event" pattern is 
that if the events are generated in one process -- an animation 
process is the example used here -- and a message is sent to the 
observer in another process, and the observer is slow, the 
natural outcome will be to drop frames instead of queue up a lot 
of messages pertaining to events that no longer need to be processed.

Cheers - Bill

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