Re: [jEdit-Syntax-devel] memory leak

[Tom B. <bra...@db...>]

"Brian W. Young" wrote:
> 
> Using OptimizeIt and the jre 1.3 w/hotspot, I've noted that the JEdit
> component is not getting cleaned up by the garbage collector after
> expicit de-referencing.  This is a known Swing issue, and an annoying
> one at that.  I've had to solve it by explicitly removing listeners and
> nulling out objects in my own GUI code.  I wonder if this type of
> cleanup is something that should be considered internally inside the
> JEdit component, with a cleanup() method that could be called?
> 
> It affects me more because my app uses multiple copies of the JEdit
> component, and expects them to be freed after the user is done with
> them.  But what I end up with is a few hundred or more objects from the
> jedit package on my heap.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the heads up.  I'll take a look at writing a proper disposal
mechanism for the next release.

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