Re: Circular references and garbage collecting

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From: Ben Starr
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 00:00

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According to the Java Language Specification:

"A reachable object is any object that can be accessed in any potential
continuing computation from any live thread."

Once an object becomes unreachable is can be garbage collected. The above
statement would indicate that the JVM is intelligent enough to know that a
class isn't reachable *just* because there are no references to it.

Ben Starr
BenS@compurp.org.uk
(Please note my e-mail address has been altered to avoid spammers,
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