4 Feb
2003
4 Feb
'03
3:45 p.m.
[ Best read while listening to Queen's "I'm going slightly mad" ] Before this futile discussion starts over again, everybody should really read Boehm's "Destructors, Finalizers, and Synchronization" (as suggest by SPJ IIRC): http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-335.html Even with real concurrency, finalizers are a nightmare to implement correctly. (If you think differently and have some JVM background, please send your resume to the company I'm working for. :-} Cheers, S.