on GUIs and such things

[Karp, Alan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn T. Rutledge [mailto:rutledge@cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 1:12 PM
> To: eros-arch@eros-os.org
> Subject: Re: on GUIs and such things
> 
> 			(snip)
> 
> And I think that Java's garbage collector is probably up to 
> the task of 
> making sure that applications don't leak memory.

It's far too easy to leak memory in Java.  You've got to be careful to drop
references, and I think there's a problem with circular references, although
the documentation says that they're handled properly.

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