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Garbage Collection rant
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostOkay I admit I was wrong, but to be fair it appears to be a well hidden feature of the language and almost everything I've read says "finalization is non-deterministic" and doesn't give the solution.Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?Comment
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I can remember moving from C++ to java 10 years ago and being told by my colleagues that garbage collection was flawed and that java would never take off.
IN the past one entry point from a method/function was a necessity but really it's just about readability now.
All true contractors must hide at least one return in every function 10 levels of scope in. We are not paid to write perfect code but maintain bad code handed down to us by the previous freelancer. It your duty fellow contractors to write crap code.Comment
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Use "using" keyword for objects that have Dispose() methods - this would make that method get called once "using" block is done.
I've learnt the hard way that any class I created that uses memory in a non-obvious way (native types) or in large quantity or keeps objects in objects needs to implement IDisposable interface.
Dispose can and gets called automatically without using but you don't get guarantee and you should not count on one - if you deal with stuff like file handles you should always use try/finally block to close file in case of exception happening.
Garbage collection in .NET is pretty good, however one should avoid allocating big chunks of memory and instead try to reuse them. If you use local objects it works okay, but having some complex stuff like file handle object stuffed into global Hashtable/ArrayList can lead to issues.
I've programmed C/C++ in the past and have to say despite garbage collection in .NET not being perfect it still improves productivity big time, if coded well overheads are low too.Comment
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI can remember moving from C++ to java 10 years ago and being told by my colleagues that garbage collection was flawed and that java would never take off.
We are not paid to write perfect code but maintain bad code handed down to us by the previous freelancer. It your duty fellow contractors to write crap code.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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