From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-06-27T18:11:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16959] Re: finalizers, destructors and whatnot

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16958] Re: finalizers, destructors and whatnot"
    on 01/06/27, Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de> writes:

|i interpreted David Leals posting in the way that he is concerned about
|the very expensive resource "database-connection" (one connection => one
|postgres daemon). With reference counting languages you get rid of them
|immediately. With ruby maybe enforcing garbage collection is worth it in
|this case (or using some kind of database pooling).

I prefer explicit disconnection for the cases like this, rather than
invoking garbage collection.

							matz.