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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <cljs@PointedEars.de>
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Tim Streater wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> wrote:
>> > If I didn't set them to null they certainly would waste memory.
>> 
>> You have a serious misconception of how these implementations work and
>> how garbage collection works, in general.  Which is unsurprising given
>> your statement on the top (and yet you still think you know what is going
>> on?).
> 
> I do know what's going on, in general terms,

No, you do not.  In short, your notion that assigning `null' would *trigger* 
garbage collection, and that therefore it would free memory, is utter 
nonsense.

> Your long description, however, contains nothing I didn't already know.

I am quite sure you did not even bother to read it.

> Now go away, and don't bother me again until you learn some manners.

Pot, kettle, black.


PointedEars
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