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Nah, the lesson I was thinking about was taught earlier, in the days of AWT. Back then, Java was fairly slow, and the garbage collector was not as sophisticated

by weland 13y ago

Nah, the lesson I was thinking about was taught earlier, in the days of AWT. Back then, Java was fairly slow, and the garbage collector was not as sophisticated as today. When the GC started collecting, you knew.

pjmlp 13y ago
Ah, but on those days all implementations were still plain old interpreters.
rsynnott 13y ago
With modern Java GUI apps, you still do, as any Netbeans user could attest.