Dave et al.,
>One thing I take from this discussion is that if "Foo" has a
>"finalize" method, then it is never the case that an instance of "Foo"
>is accessible only from its allocating thread. Compiler implementations
>that do static analyses to determine thread-locality of allocated
>objects would have to take this into account. Classes with finalizers
>should be rare enough to prevent this from taking away the benefit of
>such analyses, I'd think.
>
>
In fact, I think this is a good thing. It provides one more reason not
to use finalizers.
Josh
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