Java added syntax sugar for doing this with try(stream) { ... } and the above Scala snippet is what we use at my day job

I don't know what the equivalent in Clojure is.

in clojure you'd use with-open

(with-open [is (InputStream. foop)] ...)

Any way, that's the typical idiom for closing files vs. finalizers (there's really no such thing as a destructor on the JVM)

right but lots of people don't do it

and we'll never educate them all

so in the end there will be input streams that will need to be closed by the finalization code i guess

unless you call runFinalization explicitly (which from Javadoc indicates it'll either run in your thread or block), the finalizers really don't get run

streams could also be open in other threads, possibly, no?

But, you could kick off a background thread to call runFinalization

It only finalizes things that are eligible already

oh i see

And if you wanted to, you could request gc afterwards with (.gc System)

i didn't know about that lil guy

do you think it would work?

it would be so great to have boot working well in windows

Yeah, it'll run the finalization, which should help. Certainly worth a few minutes to test to see actual impact.

awesome, thanks! @symbit 🎌

we could special case it for windows if it proves effective