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Re:Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make yo... by pron on Saturday May 30, 2020 @03:15PM (#23363805)
Which is why finalizers in Java have been officially deprecated [1] and might be removed altogether in a future release.

[1]: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/docs/api/java.base...

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Re:Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make yo... by cesarb on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:14PM (#23366621)
Unfortunately, the alternative they recommend (Cleaner) only exists since Java 9, so it cannot be used by libraries that wish to remain compatible with Java 8 (which, in my experience, is most or all of them; so far, I haven't seen any Java library which has dropped compatibility with Java 8, and many only recently dropped compatibility with Java 6 or 7).
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Re:Rust: Dropping heavy things in another thread can make yo... by altfredd on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:12AM (#23367368)
The actual alternative is PhantomReference, which exists since ancient times. Cleaner simply provides safe way to use PhantomReferences, which are rather tricky to use (by Java standards).
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