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-As you may have noticed, the ''takeOffline'' language construct is reminiscent to the so-called ''delete'' operation provided by some languages without built-in local garbage collection. It is indeed a design decision providing the minimal set of language constructs for distributed memory management. Rather than defining one specific distributed garbage collector directly in the interpreter, we have opted to enable the experimentation of distributed garbage collection techniques from within AmbientTalk itself. Thanks to AmbientTalk reflective infrastructure, it has been possible to build more sophisticated distributed garbage collection techniques to avoid the extra burden that takeOffline places on developers. More specifically, AmbientTalk integrates leasing techniques with the notion of a remote object reference, and provides the resulting ''leased object references''. The system library shipped with AmbientTalk contains a reflective implementation of leased object references together with a set of language constructs to manipulate them.
+As you may have noticed, the ''takeOffline'' language construct is reminiscent to the so-called //delete// operation provided by some languages without built-in local garbage collection. It is indeed a design decision providing the minimal set of language constructs for distributed memory management. Rather than defining one specific distributed garbage collector directly in the interpreter, we have opted to enable the experimentation of distributed garbage collection techniques from within AmbientTalk itself. Thanks to AmbientTalk reflective infrastructure, it has been possible to build more sophisticated distributed garbage collection techniques to avoid the extra burden that takeOffline places on developers. More specifically, AmbientTalk integrates leasing techniques with the notion of a remote object reference, and provides the resulting //leased object references//. The system library shipped with AmbientTalk contains a reflective implementation of leased object references together with a set of language constructs to manipulate them.
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