On 10/03/17 21:40, Roger Riggs wrote: > Finalizers are inherently problematic and their use can lead to > performance issues, > deadlocks, hangs, and other problematic behavior.
Wow. I totally agree with the sentiment, but it's a bit late in the JDK 9 timeframe to be talking about this. Has this been discussed internally within Oracle for some time? I can't believe this is an idea you just came up with. :-) Andrew.