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Re: Run garbage collection

Chris Smith

2006-10-31, 7:07 pm

Eric Sosman <Eric.Sosman@sun.com> wrote:
> To verify that an object is truly garbage (or that it is not
> non-garbage, which may be a better description of contemporary
> collectors), the JVM would need to do pretty much the same
> amount of work it would do for an ordinary GC. It seems to me
> that "trustworthy selective GC" would not offer much savings
> over ordinary GC; TSGC would just complicate the JVM and might
> even make ordinary GC slower by imposing extra bookkeeping.

I suppose an exception would be that if the collector were generational,
the call could be interpreted as "collect up to and including the
generation that contains this object".

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Chris Smith

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