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| 26 | <h1>Reachability</h1>\r | |
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| 31 | <div class="paragraph"><p>Reachability is a notion dealing with the graph of heap objects\r | |
| 32 | maintained at runtime. Nodes in the graph are heap objects and edges\r | |
| 33 | correspond to the pointers between heap objects. As the program runs,\r | |
| 34 | it allocates new objects (adds nodes to the graph), and those new\r | |
| 35 | objects can contain pointers to other objects (new edges in the\r | |
| 36 | graph). If the program uses mutable objects (refs or arrays), it can\r | |
| 37 | also change edges in the graph.</p></div>\r | |
| 38 | <div class="paragraph"><p>At any time, the program has access to some finite set of <em>root</em>\r | |
| 39 | nodes, and can only ever access nodes that are reachable by following\r | |
| 40 | edges from these root nodes. Nodes that are <em>unreachable</em> can be\r | |
| 41 | garbage collected.</p></div>\r | |
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| 50 | <a href="MLtonFinalizable">MLtonFinalizable</a>\r | |
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| 55 | <a href="MLtonWeak">MLtonWeak</a>\r | |
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