[gclist] Finalizer flame wars. The real source of the disagreement.

[Mark Tillotson]

> 
> So when you have 20 file handles using slow and unsure finalizers to
> close files is not acceptable.
> 

If you are that limited, you are going to want your own virtual
file-handle layer anyway, which reduces the problem back to being
 "we need to recover dead open file handles, but not urgently, GC
  finalization will do nicely"

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