From: "Robert Comer" 

> I wonder whether the garbage collector ever actually runs for most Java
apps
> in real usage?

I wouldn't know, I've programmed in Java VERY sparingly. (even more so than
C++/C!)  Java isn't a fav of mine either, even though I like it's
crossplatformness.

> It's a completely legitimate approach to leak memory until there's no more
> and then require a restart... In many applications on modern systems the
> memory simply wouldn't be exhausted before it was time to close the
document
> or whatever.

I don't think I agree, sounds nasty to me as any forced restart is always
going to be in a bad place for the user.

> I need to think of a name for this approach. 'Document Based Lazy
> Reclamation of Resources'?

That's pretty much how RPG or CL works on the AS/400, as you can allocate
all you want throughout the program and it gets all returned at the end of
the program or job depending on how you call it.

Doesn't VB on the PC already work this way too, except for maybe system
calls from it?

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:4020123d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I wonder whether the garbage collector ever actually runs for most Java
apps
> in real usage?
>
> It's a completely legitimate approach to leak memory until there's no more
> and then require a restart... In many applications on modern systems the
> memory simply wouldn't be exhausted before it was time to close the
document
> or whatever.
>
> I need to think of a name for this approach. 'Document Based Lazy
> Reclamation of Resources'?
>
> Paul
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:40200b29$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > >I know what you mean I'm
> > > just in the 'If a tree falls in the forest does anybody hear?''  mode
> > today
> > > :-)
> >
> > I've always been the type that if something follows logically, like if a
> > tree falls in the forest, of course it makes a noise, I don't have to
> > experience it first hand to know it's there. 
> >
> > I understand your point though, and most likely you're right, they
> wouldn't
> > know it if they had.
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
>
>

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