Jeroen Frijters wrote:
There are several places in our codebase were we need/want to cache
stuff that is associated with a class or class loader. Currently these
places retain a strong reference to the class loader, which is not
correct, because the class loader should be garbage collectable.
Jeroen Frijters wrote:
Archie Cobbs wrote:
Dumb question.. why wouldn't it work to just use a
WeakHashMap instead of a HashMap in all those places?
Not a dumb question at all. That *would* work. The problem
is that (at least on some runtimes) WeakHashMap is much more
expensive than
