Announcement: micro-libgcj

Joel Dice dicej@mailsnare.net
Fri Jan 6 14:43:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:

> This may be trivial, but if garbage collection is removed, how do one clean 
> up?

One doesn't. :)

Many short-lived command-line programs don't need any memory management at 
all - they complete before the garbage collector needs to collect 
anything.  For such programs, garbage collection is just bloat.

It would be trivial to add a System.free(Object) function, allowing 
explicit memory management, if it was needed.

  - Joel



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