I understand the advantage and as you wrote there are cases where this is a disadvantage. The thing is one can't even extend this class according the needed functionality, since header is defined as private.
Guy On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Martin Buchholz<marti...@google.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:23, Guy Korland<gkorl...@gmail.com> 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 > -- Guy Korland
