31 Dec
2001
31 Dec
'01
10:22 p.m.
Is there a method that is guaranteed to be executed just before an object is garbage collected? I thought #finalize was it, but looking at senders in the image and ObjectMemory code, it appears that this only gets called when something that is weakly held gets cleaned up.
The weak apparatus seems to use both finalize and the executor mechanism, and I'm not sure what the roles of these two parts are.
I got into this while cleaning up a mess, but I don't really need the answers to do so. I'm just curious.
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