Is this still true under 5.6, now that weak references
are available?
-P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Sergeant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 4:14 AM
> To: Leslie Mikesell
> Cc: (Gunther Birznieks); [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Modperl/Apache deficiencies... Memory usage.
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
>
> > Do you happen to know of anyone doing xml/xsl processing in
> > servlets? A programmer here has written some nice looking stuff
> > but it appears that the JVM is never garbage-collecting and
> > will just grow and get slower until someone restarts it. I
> > don't know enough java to tell if it is his code or the xslt
> > classes that are causing it.
>
> Perl's XML::DOM creates circular references which have to be manually
> deleted with the XML::DOM::Node->dispose method. It's fairly
> likely that
> Java implementations work in a similar fashion.
>
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