[Oorexx-devel] Question ad triggering garbage collector

2022-04-24 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Trying to analyze runtime behaviours using a rexxtry.rex session in which BSF objects get created, some of which do not get assigned to Rexx variables (and hence turning to garbage after the respective statement got executed). Creating over and over BSF-ooRexx objects that do not get referenced

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question ad triggering garbage collector

2022-04-24 Thread Rick McGuire
A garbage collection is triggered any time an allocation request fails. At that time, all of the unreferenced objects are swept up and repooled and the allocation request is retried. The uninits on objects that have been identified as unreferenced will get run at the next "safe" boundary, which is

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question ad triggering garbage collector

2022-04-24 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 24.04.2022 19:57, Rick McGuire wrote: A garbage collection is triggered any time an allocation request fails. At that time, all of the unreferenced objects are swept up and repooled and the allocation request is retried. The uninits on objects that have been identified as unreferenced will ge