| From: | Ole Friis Ostergaard |
| Date: | 25 Sep 2000 at 13:19:04 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: XML and Java, a uncharted territory? |
Rudi Chiarito wrote:
> The documentation (jintro.pdf and usingjava.pdf) says the collector
> uses a mark and sweep approach and, more importantly, can be interrupted
> by system events. It also goes into some details about techniques used to
> reduce the impact of GC on system performance.
Hmmm, so memory fragmentation may become a problem, since there is no
compaction taking place. Surely this allows for good speed (since no
object pointers need to be updated during the GC run), but I'm not sure
I like that ;-)