From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/04
Date: 2000-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wcc66w4rcy5.fsf@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bt5wlt8l.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
> Does this mean that that the finalization of local variables is
> non-deterministic in Java? Ugh.
Yes. Finalization happens in Java whenever the garbage collector gets
around to noticing that it's needed.
For a generational GC (which I assume is a legal implementation of Java
GC), that could be quite a long time.
- Bob
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2000-02-02 0:00 Dummy Simic_10111
[not found] ` <3898C380.BC01EC03@earthlink.net>
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Gautier
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-03 0:00 ` Dummy Tucker Taft
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Dummy Robert A Duff
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Dummy Florian Weimer
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Dummy Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Dummy Geoff Bull
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Dummy Florian Weimer
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Dummy Hyman Rosen
[not found] ` <389c50a6.14707859@news.flash.net>
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Dummy Marin D. Condic
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2000-01-11 0:00 Dummy Simic_10111
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Dummy Gautier
2000-01-11 0:00 ` Dummy Ehud Lamm
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