RE: Memory leak in java.lang.Thread ?

[David Holmes]

> I didn't like it either and after thinking a little more about it I
> dislike it even more, because subclasses that override finalize and
> forget to call the base class (in my experience this is *highly* likely)
> would cause the leak anyway.
>
> Experimentation seems to indicate that Sun actually "leaks" unstarted
> threads in daemon groups... Maybe we should do the same?

I think perhaps you should. Otherwise you add overhead to everyone, to deal
with a very rare case, that application subclasses can break again anyway.

David Holmes

> Really going offline now