Re: Use of finalize methods in WO
Re: Use of finalize methods in WO
- Subject: Re: Use of finalize methods in WO
- From: Nilton Lessa <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:05:55 -0300
Mike, Simon, Alex and Kieran,
Thank you very much for the information.
I and Henrique had already searched in Wonder and could't find any
possible problem related to this issue. But we were insecure about
some possible problems of direct finalize() calls in EOF or some core
classes.
Thank you again.
Bests regards,
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Nilton Lessa
Moleque de Idéias Educação e Tecnologia Ltda
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On 21/08/2008, at 10:15, Mike Schrag wrote:
- where are the finalize() methods?(EOF, Wonder, ?)
As several others have pointed out, finalize is called by the GC.
Further, nothing in WO, EOF, or Wonder directly calls the finalize
method. If they're tracing through calls, they're probably seeing
the calls to super.finalize() and mistaking them for direct finalize
calls.
- how this use could affect GC perfomance?
Well, obviously implementing a custom finalizer TECHNICALLY slows
down the GC, because it becomes more expensive to collect those
objects .... but .. i mean .. really? This is the POINT of a GC.
These objects have to be cleaned up, so it would be more work for
you to manually do it. Also, show me a J2EE stack that doesn't
implement any custom finalize methods.
- is it a valid point "per se"?
No. It's an asinine point per se.
I'll be the first one to point out WO's flaws, and it certainly has
its share of flaws (like any framework), but they've gotta do a
little better than this.
ms
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