On Nov 17, 8:48 am, Joel Gonçalves <joel.uch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I made some research and I found the System.gc() call to give a hint
> to the GC. The problem is that it do not command the GC only gives a
> hint. Is this method synchronous or asynchronous.

There is no way to turn the GC off.

If you create your performance tests as a stand-alone application run
from the shell, you can pass -Xmx and -Xms options to dalvikvm that
make the heap really large, which should ensure that no GCs happen.
(I've used this for benchmarks.)

  
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/hello-world.html;hb=HEAD

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