On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:23, Guy Korland<[email protected]> wrote: > First I don't think this is the same issue, in the clear case, there's > no reference from the root to any of the entries. > Second as I know any MarkAndSweep GC should not suffer from such issue. > Since the sweep phase should collect any unreachable entry no matter > how many dead references point to it.
See my just posted email - unlinking dead older possibly tenured nodes has been known to speedup real apps by a factor of two by changing full gcs into young gen gcs. Martin
