Is this possible in Haxe to have the compiler automatically insert a function call / code segment at the point where an object instance goes out of scope? I have object instances that require manual cleanup beyond what garbage collection does (for the JS target).
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I'm experimenting with allocating small data structures in JavaScript code manually inside a virtual heap (an ArrayBuffer
), similar to what is done with compiled asm.js programs. I am using Haxe in part because I can create abstract types as convenient aliases/abstractions for their underlying data allocated in the heap (always some manner of ArrayBufferView
), while suffering no runtime overhead from the abstraction.
The only issue is that deallocation must be done manually. It's simple enough to resort to calling a destructor function manually within code, but I find this error-prone and messy. I was hoping Haxe would have some mechanism I could use to automate the insertion of these function calls whenever a variable went out of scope, in a deterministic, compile-time manner.