I have been thinking lately that perhaps Sun should make Garbage Collection
**optional**, e.g. I may want to take full responsibility for recovering
memory (in which case I would need a simple mechanism for manually
destroying individual objects, or else 'marking' them for destruction), or I
may only want automatic Garbage Collection to recover resources if and when
I *forget* to clean up after myself, or maybe I want the Garbage Collector
to be responsible for 'cleaning up after me' all the time (as it works now).
Of course, there would need to be some settable option to tell the VM which
behavior I want.
This seems like a simple (and workable) approach to recovering memory; let
me be responsible for myself if I want to, rather than take that choice away
in all cases. Wouldn't such a simple delete mechanism and an 'on/off
switch' for GC be easy to implement? Am I missing something?
Regards,
sparky
-----Original Message-----
From: Brandie Lynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alexander Semenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 9:17 PM
Subject: RE: [java3d] pausing problem
>Alexander et al,
>
>Thanks for the gc reference. And, it raises a question
>after thinking over Doug's reply. What are the
>functional (and philosophical) implications of
>trying to elimiate GC? How do you do it?
>It is after all, one of the touted benefits of Java,
>efficient GC.
>
>I'd like to see what Alexander has done and have to
>admit I've contemplated getting deeper into GC
>myself. The problems it seems to address were
>always more in evidence in C++ than in C, at
>least with the code I worked with. It seemed
>like the less ccntrol I had over what was happening
>the more likely there would be problems.
>
>Just thoughts...
>
>Brandie
>
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