On 09/09/2015 01:41 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote: > If the answer to both of these can be shown to be affirmative, then I > think there is a real viable solution which allows immediate release of > backing resources, with the address space being reclaimed by GC.
GC delays can be days if an object is in the old generation, and the Lucene people say this is a real problem for them. I don't understand why you want a solution which does not meet one of the requirements. GC is great for managing heap. For everything else it's not a solution. Andrew.
