all of java.io utilizes finalization. Regards, Kirk
Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > The only effective act you can take in a finalizer is to log a warning > that the code is buggy in that it forgot to dispose/close/cleanup > something. Unfortunately, doing this means you get the performance > penalty. You'd almost wish you can shove the 'assert' keyword onto a > finalizer to mean: Just act as if there is no finalize if assertions > aren't enabled :P > > > > On Jul 22, 2:05 pm, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> kirk wrote: >> >>>> If only finalize() would be reliable. >>>> >>> finalize is reliable, you just have to understand how it's implemented. >>> >> In some situations/VMs it can also be easy to outpace the finalizer >> thread(s) such that these don't keep up. >> >> -- >> Jess Holle >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
