[gclist] Finalization and death notices

[kkonaka@softalia.com]

hi!

 > 3) (near-death notice) The collector enqueues finalizable objects, and the
 > client decides when to run the finalizers.  This is essentially the Java2
 > java.lang.ref.PhantomReference approach.

really? what I have observed is PhantomReference gives back notices
only _after_ the GC subsystem have already run the finalizers:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/196/2001/5/100/5773756/
so I was wondering if we can come up with some variant of
PhantomReference which does inform user program _before_ finalizers
are run - (still no definitive answer for this yet).
 I'm not at all sure if introduction of such Reference type
(call it like EarlyPhasePhantomReference, or SlightlyStrongPhantomReference;
whatever) would cause any catastrophic semantic trouble to java or not...

just wondering... / regards,
kenji