From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 07:38:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA14127 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 07:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA14113 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 07:38:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA11525; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:38:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA12182; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:38:27 -0600 Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 08:38:27 -0600 Message-Id: <199808061438.IAA12182@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: reilly@zeta.org.au (Andrew Reilly), tom@uniserve.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up on LFS In-Reply-To: <199808060606.XAA22855@usr09.primenet.com> References: <19980806112955.A4299@reilly.home> <199808060606.XAA22855@usr09.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > JAVA has a nasty tendency to leak like a sieve until the GC hits a > steady state. As does Modula 3. You've *got* to be kidding, right? Do you have any idea how often the GC collection pass is run? It would be *very* difficult in real world programs to leak any signficicant (~1MB) of memory before the GC phase kicked in. I know, I've tried and have benchmarks to prove it. Using 100% of the CPU for minutes at a time, I still get the GC kicking in using Sun's JVM implementation. (The M$ implementation is notorious for doing bad things since it uses a different reaping technology, so it's much less useful for programs that make heavy use of 'new'.) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message