Been a while since an update since I've been mainly reimplementing all of the basic functionality into the now third incarnation of Om that has been already described in previous entries. I've made ...

I have an object that maintains a number of internal pthreads. In the object destructor, I want to kill any running internal threads. The thread executing the destructor will not be one of these ...

This may be a language dependent thing, or something I'm missing something fundamental, but here's the scene in a sort of pseudo code. The method scope ends. In what order does the garbage collector ...