Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad debugging garbage collection dependent resources

2022-07-16 Thread Rick McGuire
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:25 AM Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > On 16.07.2022 17:18, Rick McGuire wrote: > > I am a serious -1 to this proposal. This is something with serious > performance implications and will only be misused by people who don't > understand how garbage collection works. There, you

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad debugging garbage collection dependent resources

2022-07-16 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 16.07.2022 17:18, Rick McGuire wrote: I am a serious -1 to this proposal. This is something with serious performance implications and will only be misused by people who don't understand how garbage collection works. There, you no longer need to worry about silent assent. Indeed. So, Rick,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad debugging garbage collection dependent resources

2022-07-16 Thread Rick McGuire
I am a serious -1 to this proposal. This is something with serious performance implications and will only be misused by people who don't understand how garbage collection works. There, you no longer need to worry about silent assent. Rick On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:12 AM Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

[Oorexx-devel] Ad debugging garbage collection dependent resources

2022-07-16 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
While debugging (for almost two months) ooRexx and BSF4ooRexx/Java it was almost impossible to determine the source of some memory leaks. The reason was not being able to rely on the garbage collector having run at a specific point in time such that all objects that have no references anymore g