JDK-8165641 (“Deprecate Object.finalize”) has been opened to “deprecate Object.finalize()” because “finalizers are inherently problematic and their use can lead to performance issues, deadlocks, hangs, and other problematic behavior” and because “the timing of finalization is unpredictable with no guarantee that a finalizer will be called.” I recently experienced and wrote about some of these nasty ...
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