From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-07-05T02:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection on Windoze

On 04.07.2010 18:36, Thierry Lambert wrote:
> I have a question about garbage collection. In short, I thought that
> releasing any reference to an object, and then calling GC.start would
> garbage-collect the object. It turns out not to be true (on Windoze),
> and I've been scratching my head to understand what's going on (in
> vain).

There is no guarantee for GC.  For efficiency reasons most GC 
implementations do not simply delete all objects once there is no life 
reference to them any more.  Even if you explicitly start a collection 
there is no guarantee.

Kind regards

	robert

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