On Aug 13, 9:37 am, Michael Barker <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > > see it as performance optimisation. A GC impl which would have to deal > > with fragmented, non continuous and resizing heap would have a hard > > time to compete with the current VM. > > Where's it written that the current VM has a continuous, non-fragmented > static heap. i should have used "contiguous" which would have made it easier to google it http://blogs.oracle.com/moazam/entry/why_can_t_i_allocate
of course its not specified if thats what you meant with "written down". for jrockit: http://blogs.oracle.com/jrockit/entry/how_to_get_almost_3_gb_heap_on_windows i remember quite well as we had to tweak the boot process of windows to move some statically allocated addresses around just to make the mem contiguous after boot. (couldn't find a good link for this one) -michael > > Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
