RFR 9: 8165641 : Deprecate Object.finalize
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Sat Mar 11 07:59:27 UTC 2017
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.
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