Garbage Collection – humanoid readable

WeakAssQueue

LIFO queue that will drop old elements when needed.

The Idea

Have a Last-In-First-Out queue (implements java.util.Queue<E>) that will release old elements so that garbage collection (GC) can remove them. Like a cache that is a stack.

How to replace Object.finalize()

There are many articles and blog posts about this topic but rarely are they complete. I’ll cover finalizers, Finalizer Guardian idiom, Dispose Pattern, PhantomReference and Cleanable.