Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:23:07 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <6KSdnTwztJvtR0bSnZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d@giganews.com> <_JmdnUu_Z-scJEHSnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@giganews.com> <4fe27687$0$281$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="IZQsHU8CwMUPnWgvh4wwWA"; logging-data="13770"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+fyrkXpRtLf11sDqPGz0WTsAohiRTxXZc=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:n9gP3lApMirhtz33Fp4O7gH0VT4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15498 You've probably seen this or something like it already, but here's a reference to Java's current GC implementation. Note that "serial, stop-the-world" garbage collectors are kind of old fashioned these days.