RE: Memory leak in java.lang.Thread ?

[Jeroen Frijters]

I wrote:
> I'm leaning towards "leaking" daemon thread groups in the case of
> unstarted threads that have been GCed.

I've modified my patch to use a PhantomReference to do the cleanup. I
still think we shouldn't bother to do the cleanup, but I will note that
using the PhantomReference probably isn't as expensive as I originally
thought, because it can be thrown away as soon as the thread is started.

Regards,
Jeroen

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