Trusting the GC with freeing externally observable resources will bring you some...

		PhilipRoman on March 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Garbage collection for systems programmers (2023) Trusting the GC with freeing externally observable resources will bring you some very painful bugs. On that note, it's 2024 and we still cannot unmap a mmapped file from Java in a timely manner. I really hope they do something about it.