question on finalize method

[Y. Srinivas Ramakrishna]

Yes; indeed, the spec is deliberately loose because it
is difficult in practice to implement any hard promptness
guarantees in general.

-- ramki

On 4/17/2011 8:55 PM, Ted Yu wrote:
> Is this statement true for Java 1.6 and beyond (
> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/754353) ?
> In fact, it is perfectly permissible for a Java VM to *never* call it.
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> Thanks
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