How does it help the GC? As I understand the M&S algorithm, there's no real advantages in doing so.
In fact in many places to "null" references is considered to be an anti pattern in java. Guy On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Tom Hawtin<[email protected]> wrote: > Guy Korland wrote: > >> It seems like linkedList.clear() can be easily fixed to O(1) instead of >> O(n). > > The code is like that on purpose(!). It was done to help GC, in mustang > IIRC. There really isn't a problem with clear() being O(n) - it's going to > take at least O(n) to populate it, and in reality *many* times more cycles. > > Tom > -- Guy Korland
