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Subject: RE: finalize question
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:09:28 -0600
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From: "Caldarale, Charles R" <Chuck.Caldarale@unisys.com>
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> From: Andy Kriger [mailto:andy.kriger@gmail.com]=20
> Subject: finalize question
>=20
> Problem is, I'm not seeing any finalize methods being called.

Reliance on finalizers is a sign of extremely poor application design.
First, it can be a significant performance hit, since objects with
finalizers have to be handled specially both by allocation and garbage
collection.  Second, there's no guarantee that a finalizer will _ever_
be called, so if you're dependent on that happening, you're in trouble
right from the start.  Much better to design your app with discrete
event handling and not leave it up to the whims of the garbage
collector.

 - Chuck


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