Object Deletion

• Object physically removed when all sources of its persistence are removed

  • Thus deleting a named DB object doesn’t physically remove object unless nothing else in DB references that object

• One solution: reference counts

  • Remove object when reference count = 0
  • Performance problems
  • Must ensure that copying a ref. incrs. ref. count
  • Used in early versions of O2

• Can use periodic garbage collection instead

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