programming, a weak reference is a reference that does not protect the referenced object from collection by a garbage collector, unlike a strong reference. An object...

Strong cross-references can accordingly create deadlocks and memory leaks. It is up to the developer to break cycles by using weak references. Apple Inc...

being weak and phantom. In order from strongest to weakest, they are: strong, soft, weak, phantom. Soft references behave almost identically to weak references...

strong' reference defined in the Java programming language; the others being weak and soft. Phantom reference are the weakest level of reference in Java;...

to use weak references for the "backpointers" which create cycles. Under reference counting, a weak reference is similar to a weak reference under a...

In mathematics, a weak solution (also called a generalized solution) to an ordinary or partial differential equation is a function for which the derivatives...

cycles, often a small subset of all data. One such method is the use of weak references, while another involves using a mark-sweep algorithm that gets called...

provides three forms of weak references, namely soft references, phantom references, and regular weak references. A softly referenced object is only eligible...

implement weak references. If an object is reachable only through either weak references or chains of references that include a weak reference, then the...

data that is replicated or exists only as a weakly consistent message stream. In all these cases, the reference includes the full set of instructions, or...

physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the electrically charged part of the weak interaction: Particles with half-integer weak isospin can...

variant weak reference pattern decouples an observer from an observable to avoid memory leaks in environments without automatic weak references. Protocol...

not strongly or softly reachable, but is referenced by a weak reference is called "weakly reachable". A weakly reachable object is garbage collected in...

unregister observers can leave dangling references. This issue can be mitigated by using weak references for observer references, allowing the garbage collector...

String weak var home: Home? // Defined as a weak reference in order to break the reference cycle. weak references do not increment the reference count...

A weak symbol denotes a specially annotated symbol during linking of Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) object files. By default, without any annotation...

In quantum mechanics (and computation & information), weak measurement is a type of quantum measurement that results in an observer obtaining very little...

Apologies Are for the Weak is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Miss May I, and is their only album with bassist and clean vocalist Josh...

resurrected; these are called short weak references, and weak references that track resurrection are called long weak references. Object resurrection is useful...

classified is whether the language's type system makes it strongly typed or weakly typed (loosely typed). However, there is no precise technical definition...

directly by a strong reference or indirectly by a chain of strong references. (A strong reference is a reference that, unlike a weak reference, prevents an object...

Virtual method table (also called vtable, virtual function table or virtual method table) Viscosity (programming) Void type Weak reference Yo-yo problem...

and weak references in Scheme: ;; weak hashes ;; (require 'hash-table) (define (make-weak-table . args) (apply make-hash-table args)) (define (weak-table-set...

weak ordering is a mathematical formalization of the intuitive notion of a ranking of a set, some of whose members may be tied with each other. Weak orders...

The name weak consistency can be used in two senses. In the first sense, strict and more popular, weak consistency is one of the consistency models used...

In fair division, a topic in economics, a preference relation is weakly additive if the following condition is met: If A is preferred to B, and C is preferred...

In the Germanic languages, weak verbs are by far the largest group of verbs, and are therefore often regarded as the norm (the regular verbs). They are...

handled by a garbage collector, though for this to work correctly weak references to string interns must be stored in the intern pool. Flyweight pattern...

called "soft", "open", "empirical", "hopeful", or "temporal agnosticism", weak agnosticism is the view that the existence or nonexistence of any deities...

circular references can develop which cause a memory leak to occur. This can be mitigated by either adding the concept of a "weak reference" (a reference that...