Running a "final" finaliser

Tomasz Zielonka t.zielonka at students.mimuw.edu.pl
Mon Dec 22 11:34:14 EST 2003


On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:13:42AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
>  
> performGC doesn't do anything that you can rely on :-)  In practice, it
> probably starts all the finalizers that are ready to run, but it
> certainly doesn't wait for their termination.

Moreover, it is not guaranteed that performGC will trigger a full GC.
Most often it will reclaim only the 0th generation. I think it would be
useful to have something like performFullGC.

Best regards,
Tom

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