> On Mar 10, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Roger Riggs <roger.ri...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Finalizers are inherently problematic and their use can lead to performance > issues, > deadlocks, hangs, and other problematic behavior. > > The problems have been accumulating for many years and the first step to > deprecate Object.finalize and the overrides in the JDK to communicate the > issues, recommend alternatives, and motivate changes where finalization is > currently used. > > The behavior of finalization nor any uses of finalize are not modified by > this change. > Most of the changes are to suppress compilation warnings within the JDK. > > Please review and comment. > > Webrev: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-finalize-deprecate-8165641/ > > Issue: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8165641 > > Thanks, Roger
looks good.
