On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:09:13PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > I hope the optimization is actually worth it. It occurred to me that > enums are of course by design singletons. So in that case you might not > actually find so many instances of them anyway. If someone implements > this 'empty-finalizer-erasure' it might be interesting to have a > statistic of how many empty finalizers there actually are in the wild > (say by running some bigger programs like eclipse or tomcat to see > whether or not it actually occurs for real users, or only is an issue in > case of contrived benchmarks). Current GNU Classpath head has: 7121 classes 53 classes have a finalizer 8 of them are empty (w/o java.lang.Object) An eclipse-3.2.1 startup-and-shutdown: 3808 class loads 10 classes have a finalizer 4 of them are empty Make your own decision :-) - twisti
