Howdy, Actually, the popularity and usage of Jikes has been decreasing (at least as measured by downloads). Javac's memory-handling behavior has been improved significantly.
The memory leaks described earlier in this thread are not compiler-related and simply swapping compilers would not help. They are problems of reference scope. Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Nikola Milutinovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 1:16 AM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: Re: Need some Tomcat Configuration help badly > >Dick Steflik wrote: > >> I had the same question. In all of the years I've worked with Java I've >> always thought it was free of memory leaks. If you use a different >> compiler does the problem go away. Is that how people like JRun >> (Macromedia) and WebSphere (IBM) avoid the problem? > >It could be. Someone here mentioned using Jikes for Tomcat as a workaround >(solution). I know that Jikes has bugs, here and there, but it can be made >to >work and it comes with Tomcat. Considering that "javac" has an all present >bug >(this memory leak), Jikes is better. I guess commercial solutions use their >own >implementations or fork off to get rid of memory leak. > >Why does JavaC have that memory leak? > >Nix. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
