Re: Delphi32 & Delphi.NET Should Both Have *Optional* Garbage Collection

Bryce,
I sorta thought the DotNet version already was an optional garbage collector, if you used VCL.NET I mean. With VCL.NET, can't you either free/dispose everything yourself via the "normal" way, or let the garbage collector get it when it wants?

-BKN

Hi Bryce,
it's not free-ing, it's disposing. And actually, you have to, it's not optional as there are unmanaged resources involved for which GC has no clue what to do with.
If you know, that a specific VCL.Net does not use unmaged stuff, you don't need to dispose it. Even if you did, it wouldn't "free" the object. ;-)
Please correct me, if this was wrong, I'm not that familiar with VCL.Net...
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