hey!!

Jeff Sonstein wrote:
> 
> > just a thought i had while wandering around siggraph -- perhaps these
> > "slowdowns" are not network related at all, and are simply the java
> > garbage collector kicking in.
> 
> hmmmm indeed  ;^}
> 
> what puzzles me is
> it consistently happens
> when >= 12 or so users are logged on
> and consistently *doesn't* happen
> whe <= 10 users are logged on
> 
> > if so, one way to avoid them would be to use a "bucket" allocator that
> > recycles messages, instead of leaving it to the JVM to clean them up.
> 
> ahhh
> this is an interesting idea  ;^}
> something like what a DB connection manager might do
> to reuse a Connection object
> after the using-class is done with the DB query...


when you said this i automatically thought of
persistence and how postgresql uses concurrent versioning inside of its
dbms

virtually handling all of that and leaving the programmer to worry about
other things

thought this might spur on some ideas 

toodles


> make msg "blank" and make msg avail for reuse
> after orig-user's message is sent?
> sort of a heap for messages?
> 
> jeffs
> 
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> Jeff Sonstein
> Assistant Professor of Information Technology
> Rochester Institute of Technology
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> there are no bugs
> there are just undocumented features

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