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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:39:04 +0200
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On 23.06.2012 13:36, Wanja Gayk wrote:

> Maybe it's just because sometimes people don't like to give up control
> they once had, just to be sure they could if they needed, even though in
> 99.99% of all cases they don't.

In my experience it's different: you need to have control because the 
automatic mechanisms in GC implementations still do not cope well with 
all use cases (at least those we had).  Although that does not mean that 
for many use cases defaults are sufficient (which they are I believe).

Kind regards

	robert

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