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(...) *snicker* I'm surprised you used C as one of your example languages, then. Anyway, not all of us are so lucky as to be able to choose a language where you can hide all your cleanup code like that. As a personal issue, I find such cleanup (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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Don't know about C/C++, but IIRC in Java the garbage collector destroys objects not when they are out of scope, nor when their creator function exits. It destroys them when the object is no longer referenced by any threads. That is to say, if (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The purpose of garbage collection is to remove resources from use when they are not going to be used anymore. It covers a variety of issues, some you've each touched on. I suggest as a start, Garbage Collection: Algorithms for automatic (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually, this is a common misconception. In Java, there is no guarantee that memory is _ever_ reclaimed. It is perfectly permissible by the specification (and quite common in embedded applications) that garbage collection is _never_ done. At (...) (21 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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