Dne Čt 7. srpna 2014 08:17:16, Andrew Haley napsal(a): > I'm wondering whether it's really worth your time applying band-aids to > a broken mechanism.
Under the assumption WeakReference and ReferenceQueue are flawless, there is no reason to call a mechanism based on WeakReference and ReferenceQueue synergy "broken". > An object can be > "really gone" even when one of its instance methods is still executing. That would probably signal a major flaw in the JVM. In any case, this is orthogonal to the discussion I am leading. I am operating on the assumption that the new APIs which were designed to replace Object.finalize - e.g. WeakReference and ReferenceQueue & co. are flawless. > On 06/08/14 11:17, Jaroslav Tulach wrote: > > Sure, but that cannot happen with activeQueue() as the referent is really > > gone before appropriate Reference.run() is executed. > I'm sure that it can happen, in just the same way. You are more than welcomed to prove your claim and report bug to JDK. I'd say. -jt
