| From: | John Niclasen |
| Date: | 22 Sep 2000 at 17:25:51 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: XML and Java, a uncharted territory? |
Hi Juan!
On 22-Sep-00, Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez wrote:
> From: Jim Peters <jim@aguazul.demon.co.uk>
>
>> I can't possibly tolerate everything stopping dead
>> every now and then for it to garbage-collect.
>
> This garbage collection issue is not a thing that can
> get done in the background, right? Why is it?
The Java garbage collection as descriped in the Amiga SDK
manual:
Page 39 "Garbage Collection":
"Garbage collection is central to Java programming. It
achieves high performance by taking advantage of the
natural pauses in user behaviour. During these idle
periods the Java run-time system automatically runs the
garbage collector in a low-priority thread."
-
"Within our Java implementation, garbage collection can be
interrupted by system events."
Page 42 "Amiga Dynamics":
"The garbage collector is configured to run on request, or
whenever a set amount of memory has been allocated
following the last garbage collection, as well as when
the working set of allocated memory reaches a high water
mark."
So garbage collection can be done in the background, but
you need some clever minds to implement it, and it seems,
we got that. :)
John Niclasen
Denmark.
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