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| From: | Jeroen Frijters |
| Subject: | RE: [cp-patches] [PATCH] Fix PR classpath/24086, PR classpath/24091, PR classpath/24104 et al. ... |
| Date: | Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:48:37 +0200 |
David Daney wrote: > A finalizer is simple and gets the job done. Finalizers are anything but simple. They really should only be used to free native resources (as a last resort), not for any type of Java clean up. Blocking and locking should be avoided in a finalizer. Typically there is only one finalizer thread and you don't want to hog that by blocking on I/O. I wrote about how finalize should be used on my blog: http://weblog.ikvm.net/permalink.aspx?guid=3E0ABC11-F486-4366-9127-CF38B B6C3EF1 Regards, Jeroen
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