jon * wrote:
>
> on 3/24/00 10:27 AM, Scott C. Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I always thought the purpose of a Singleton is not so much to stay cached in
> > memory but to disallow multiple instances of its-self to ever be
> > instantiated at any point in time. What this buys you is that, say you have
> > multiple concurrent users all using trying to use the same object, the
> > Singleton pattern will make sure that they all share the same instance
> > instead of a new instance for each user. Does this make since or am I way
> > off here?
> >
> > -Scott-
>
> You are right on, but it also retains a reference to itself which should
> cause it to not get GC'd...
Not if it is a static reference... which it has to be. The second no
other object hits it she gets GC.
Kevin
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