Bear in mind that Enum's empty final finalize() method is a security fix, preventing subclasses from creating illegal enum values. That security fix can easily apply to other classes too - any class which wants to control when subclasses can be instantiated by throwing exceptions from the constructor needs a final finalize(). I don't know whether this applies to Inflater but it does suggest that optimizing for empty finalize() is a good idea regardless, because people shouldn't have to choose between performance issues and security. (optimizing for a finalize() that simply calls super.finalize() might be worthwhile too?) Stuart. On 21 Dec 2006 09:16:07 -0700, Tom Tromey <tromey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> "Twisti" == Christian Thalinger <twisti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Twisti> 87% precent of the heap allocations with a finalizer have an empty Twisti> finalizer. The class responsible for this is java/util/zip/Inflater. I think we can simply delete Inflater.finalize. Tom
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