On Dec 28, 2006, at 1:56 AM, Weldon Washburn wrote:
I noticed this when running various hacked up versions of Finx.java
on Sun
JVM. If for whatever reason a finalizer hangs or goes into an
infinite
loop, the remaining unexecuted finalizers might never get a chance
to run.
The Java application must be developed with this possibility in mind.
There is really nothing "final" about finalizers. A better term
would be
"dead object hint".
Or "really bad feature that people shouldn't use"
geir
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Weldon Washburn
Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
