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Re: Proposed new Java feature

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On 5/26/2012 4:11 PM, Mike Schilling wrote:

> Proposed feature: a static method on Thread that clears all ThreadLocals for
> the current thread.
>


I can see your points.  However, I don't have any real experience with 
ThreadLocal, and when a neophyte agrees with your argument, that's a red 
flag.

Here's a blog where someone seems to have the same issue as you.

<http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jjviana/archive/2010/06/10/threadlocal-thread-pool-bad-idea-or-dealing-apparent-glassfish-memor>

At the end of the comments, there's a suggestion to use 
ThreadLocal::remove(), with the implication that it allows the thread 
local variable to be garbage collection.  Is there a reason that doesn't 
work for you?

My other thought is that "for the current thread" could be improved with 
"for a given thread."  So, inside an Executor, I can just call

   Thread t = ...
   // .. use the thread ..
   Thread.removeLocals( t );
   // now add the thread back into the pool...

And this seems better because I don't have to rely on the users of a 
thread remembering to do it themselves.  External control seems better here.

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Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-26 16:11 -0700
  Re: Proposed new Java feature Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-27 13:32 +0200
    Re: Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 11:14 -0700
      Re: Proposed new Java feature Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-28 12:13 +0200
      Re: Proposed new Java feature v_borchert@despammed.com (Volker Borchert) - 2012-06-04 20:16 +0000
  Re: Proposed new Java feature markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-27 09:28 -0700
    Re: Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 11:00 -0700
      Re: Proposed new Java feature Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-05-27 11:46 -0700
        Re: Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 12:04 -0700
          Re: Proposed new Java feature Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-05-27 15:30 -0400
            Re: Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 12:59 -0700
              Re: Proposed new Java feature Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-05-27 17:51 -0400
                Re: Proposed new Java feature markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-27 15:20 -0700
                Re: Proposed new Java feature Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-28 12:13 +0200
                Re: Proposed new Java feature markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-28 08:28 -0700
                Re: Proposed new Java feature Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-28 19:29 +0200
                Re: Proposed new Java feature markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-28 12:16 -0700
                Re: Proposed new Java feature Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-28 22:58 +0200
                Re: Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-28 21:40 -0700
                Re: Proposed new Java feature Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-29 22:52 +0200
                Re: Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-29 18:53 -0700
                Re: Proposed new Java feature Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-05-27 23:27 +0100
                Re: Proposed new Java feature Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-28 12:22 +0200
                Re: Proposed new Java feature "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-27 21:43 -0700
                Re: Proposed new Java feature Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-05-29 14:32 +0000
  Re: Proposed new Java feature Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2012-05-27 18:43 +0100
  Re: Proposed new Java feature Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2012-06-02 12:41 -0700
    Re: Proposed new Java feature markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-02 15:55 -0700

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