A Garbage Collection technique for Object Oriented programming in TCL. Most (if not all) TCL object systems do not contain a native garbage collection process. Many large applications create a large number of temporary objects. Keeping them in memory leads to needless consumption of resources. Constantly re-spawning them can lead to significant performance penalties in some object systems.
Thanatos was developed by SDW for use in his Odie system.
Thanatos has 3 parts * An allocation manager * An "angel of death" process * A standard method in each object to handle "The touch of death"