[Webmacro-devel] Re: [WebMacro-user] More pruning

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Brian Goetz wrote:

| I'm thinking of pruning Justin's home-grown profiling mechanism.  It
| seems pretty intrusive and certainly adds a lot of code.  Any
| objections?

None at all!

|
| I've removed the pooling of contexts and am almost done with the
| pooling of FastWriters (which are now internal.)  I removed the ascii
| hack from FW (since its now no longer exposed anyway.)

Excellent!

|
| I've removed the explicit cleanup of context tools and am letting
| garbage collection do that for us.  I pushed tools loading into the
| Broker; as a result, the Context got a lot lighter-weight.
|
| I'm working on removing the reference counting of Brokers and am
| hoping to be able to let garbage collection do it all for us.

I don't feel GC'ing should take care of open files, DB connections etc,
such resources should have explicit life cycles.

|
| Then I'll replace ScalableMap with ConcurrentHashMap and I should be
| done for this round of refactoring, leaving us with a much slimmer,
| easier to navigate WM.


This sounds fantastic.

Could you also get rid of all threads while you're at it? ;) The
System.currentMills() super-thread for improving loggingspeed or
-whatever- it does should be killed. WM is a library, and threads being
created here and there w/o me wanting it is annoying!

Endre.