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implementation using {Hashtbl.t} is not suitable, because all
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associations would keep in memory the arguments and the result.
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Ephemerons can also be used for "adding" a field to an arbitrary
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boxed ocaml value: you can attach an information to a value
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created by an external library without memory leaks.
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Ephemerons hold some keys and one or no data. They are all boxed
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ocaml values. The keys of an ephemerons have the same behavior
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than weak pointers according to the garbage collector. In fact
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the bindings are weak, [mem h k] is true doesn't mean that a
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just following [find h k] will not raise the exception
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[Not_found] since the garbage collector can run between the two.
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Secondly during an iteration the table shouldn't be modified use
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instead {!filter_map_inplace} for that purpose.
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*)
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include Hashtbl.S
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