Hans, thanks for another great lesson! On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:19 AM, Hans Boehm <hbo...@google.com> wrote:
> > The downside of treating "this" specially is that it makes it even harder > to explain the other cases, e.g. when the object being finalized > prematurely was an explicit parameter, or perhaps even the result of a > factory method. > Java programmer intuition says the "this" object receiver is special. E.g. there's no way to explicitly null out "this" in a method body to be nice to the GC, as you can with a method argument. Think how crazy "this = null;" looks! But that's what the VM is doing on your behalf. Anyways, back in the real world this change got submitted with reachabilityFence.
