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[Neil Hodgson]

Cameron Laird:

> ... but the *references* in that object are unlikely to be
> meaningful on the second machine (or, in many cases, on the
> original machine, if at a sufficiently later time).

    The marshaling of the object is responsible for persisting any
contained references in a format that can be revivified on the second
machine. Sometimes these are references to 'short lived' objects in the
original process, in which case they should have been addrefed which
will also lock the process alive. Other times they may be monikers to
stable objects which can be reloaded.

    Neil