<p dir="ltr">I think it's not for garbage collection. Because all atoms in the same section are already connected with LayoutAfter references, they are treated as a group by the garbage collector.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">2015/01/26 19:25 "Shankar Easwaran" <<a href="mailto:shankar.kalpathi.easwaran@gmail.com">shankar.kalpathi.easwaran@gmail.com</a>>:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is mainly relevant when you turn on garbage collection as Nick pointed out. You can refer to an atom in a section but to keep the section to be consistent w.r.t ELF you have to keep all the remaining atoms together.<br>
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