Stuart Ballard wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:47:54 +0100, Jeroen Frijters > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I didn't like it either and after thinking a little more about it I > > dislike it even more, because subclasses that override finalize and > > forget to call the base class (in my experience this is > *highly* likely) > > would cause the leak anyway. > > Would it be possible to keep a list of weak references and use one of > those magic queue things that notifies you when your objects become > unreachable?
Yeah, we could use a phantom reference to clean up. This is better than a finalize method, but it isn't cheap either. An additional downside of them is that IKVM doesn't really support them :-( The .NET weak references are very weak compared to Java (pun intended). I'm currently leaning towards not cleaning up. Regards, Jeroen _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
