Re: [android-developers] Android GC internals

2012-11-13 Thread Mark Murphy
Possibly, but this is the wrong list for your question. Consider one of the lists hosted at http://source.android.com. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Vidocq wrote: > Just want to make it 100% clear. > > Android OS use 2 GC algorithms - Mark&Sweep and Concurrent Mark&Sweep. > > Before 2.3 there

[android-developers] Android GC internals

2012-11-13 Thread Vidocq
Just want to make it 100% clear. Android OS use 2 GC algorithms - Mark&Sweep and Concurrent Mark&Sweep. Before 2.3 there was no concurrent algorithm - just a serial one. Serial Mark&Sweep - is compacting algorithm and only work with Young generation. CMS works with both generations(Yong and