[GHC] #1364: Finalizers not guaranteed to run before the program exits

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#1364: Finalizers not guaranteed to run before the program exits
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 Reporter:  tomac at pacific.net.au  |          Owner:  simonmar        
     Type:  feature request       |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:  6.10.1          
Component:  Runtime System        |        Version:  6.6.1           
 Severity:  normal                |     Resolution:                  
 Keywords:                        |     Difficulty:  Moderate (1 day)
 Testcase:                        |   Architecture:  Unknown         
       Os:  Unknown               |  
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Changes (by tibbe):

 * cc: johan.tibell at gmail.com (added)

Comment:

 Replying to [comment:6 Svarog]:
 > Added patches that add C finalizers that can be run directly from the
 garbage collector.

 Will this add a performance penalty (i.e. extra GC overhead) to code that
 does not make use of finalizers?

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1364#comment:8>
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