Name: rm29839 Date: 10/28/97


This may seem weird, but give me a chance.

In NeWS there was a way to ask the system to
figure you who was pointing at a given reference.
That is, what objects are pointing at another
object.

This is needed so that you can figure out why an
object is not being garbage collected. This can
be useful in lots of situations, but in the case
of a browser, or something like a browser, when
you kill an applet and it, and all its associated
classes, are not unloaded from the system, then
you have a very serious memory leak.

It's not hard to implement this. Please put it
in the back of somebody's head so that it gets
in there some day.
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