🚀 go-pugleaf

James I thought youd be interested in this one
its a quote from Bruce Eckels Thinking in Java

"An ordinary object would be fair game for garbage collection, but not
a Thread. Each Thread �registers� itself so there is actually a
reference to it someplace and the garbage collector can�t clean it
up."

So basicallit looks like you can just call it and forget it
Pretty cool hey

Greg

James Rudnicki wrote in message <6elcmn$pqb6@forums.borland.com>...
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>Greg Dickson wrote in message <6ej7rq$nmb1@forums.borland.com>...
>>if I start a thread from a method with say
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>>private  void doCommand (String doThis) {
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>>RunCommand tc = new RunCommand(doThis);
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>>What happens if the method is called several times
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>Well, tc gets the new reference to the object each time the method is
>called, but I would worry about the garbage collector.  When you
create the
>new instance, the reference to the old instance becomes unused.  What
has a
>reference to the old and still executing thread? Nothing, so the
garbage
>collector might try to clean up thereby ruining the data members.
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>You may get lucky because an event listener could have a reference
and keep
>the instance alive, but...
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>Maybe keep all the references on a Stack or Vector.
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>bye
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