Patch: finalize interned strings

[Jeff Sturm]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> I'm now wondering: Does the collector guarentee that finalizers will be run
> immediatly when an object is collected? Or can the running of finializers be
> deferred until a later collection in some cases?

Finalizers should run *before* an object is collected.  The finalizer
gets one chance to create a new reference to the object, preventing the
object from being collected at the time (though it may be collected
later, and a finalizer never runs twice per object).

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Jeff Sturm
jsturm@sigma6.com