It's all specified quite clearly in the Java Virtual Machine Specification,
but the gist of it is this: JVM implementations can do whatever they want as
a GC mechanism, including nothing at all. (Believe me!) You cannot rely on
any aspect of the GC mechanism across any or all JVMs.
We (Sacramento Java User's Group) had a Sun engineer come up from San Jose
and tell us that the Solaris GC mechanism is different from the Solaris
Reference implementation *and* the Win32 implementation--if Sun's not going
to keep them the same across JVMs, how can you expect anybody else to? :)
Ted Neward
Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken here
http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward
"I don't even speak for myself; my wife won't let me." --Me
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From: Srinivasan S (Systems Engineering Group) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, July 22, 1999 10:17 PM
Subject: Off topic : Algorthim of GC
>Hello,
>
> First of all leme apologize for this off topic question. I know
>java has implemented an GC for collecting the objects what is the
>algorthim for GC to clean an object meaning any specific time frame, it
>has beengiven that whenever an object is not in use, what this term
>specifices?? can anyone throw some light in this one.
>
>Thanks
>Srini
>
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