Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:10:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:10:28 +0100 From: bugbear User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110429 Fedora/2.0.14-1.fc13 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Managed-Code Bloat References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <4YKdnW38B9yYdnDQnZ2dnUVZ7sqdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-ulSNsJ32OLixzlTlH9mUMLeOD8J6jV5+Plt0bgq410RimT1E0iAfoe2HwyqRlRyPYSAXit/fJ0jdQNW!bJ21s5KrTMmU+apGA3JErthy2Ww1tmv/IYKuV0AnSUNbbgJPRHbKK+k+9tRzcbwWg1PUvtHKZ8R7!trSRcphK9w+mZntVKX6H+Y4cng== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2003 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5059 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Joshua Cranmer wrote: > >> On 6/6/2011 6:38 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> In message, Joshua Cranmer wrote: >>> >>>> Both SpiderMonkey and V8 are garbage-collected. >>> >>> Probably same here. >> >> That is not the case. > > So why have a “delete” statement, then? Tell you what. Go and learn about garbage collection (in the most general sense) and we'll continue the discussion when you know enough to be worth talking with. BugBear