[cp-patches] [PATCH] Fix PR classpath/24086, PR classpath/24091, PR classpath/24104 et al. ...

[Jeroen Frijters]

David Daney wrote:
> A finalizer is simple and gets the job done.

Finalizers are anything but simple. They really should only be used to
free native resources (as a last resort), not for any type of Java clean
up. Blocking and locking should be avoided in a finalizer. Typically
there is only one finalizer thread and you don't want to hog that by
blocking on I/O.

I wrote about how finalize should be used on my blog:
http://weblog.ikvm.net/permalink.aspx?guid=3E0ABC11-F486-4366-9127-CF38B
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Regards,
Jeroen