[ImageJ-devel] when to close cursors, was Re: [fiji-devel] imglib coding style

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Albert Cardona wrote:

> A short note: the cursor class could have an @Override on the
> finalize() method from class Object, and in it call .close().

Might be a bad idea:

	http://www.javafaq.nu/java-article259.html

In short: implementing finalize() can impose a significant slow-down on 
the garbage collector.

Ciao,
Dscho