From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:

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

Yup. It does.

> 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'?
>

DBLRR?

Double R?



Adam


> 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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