Le 12/12/2011 16:00, Timon Gehr a écrit : > > I certainly don't confuse them (GC wouldn't be very interesting if the > two were the same), and as I understand it there exist very few GC > implementations that _guarantee_ responsiveness over a long time period. > This effect gets a lot bigger as memory usage and reference mutation > rate grow. It is very easy for a sufficiently big Java application, for > instance, to get responsiveness problems.
Is the GC responsiveness increased when there are less objects to collect ? Wouldn't it be much increased if most small objects (strings, numbers, date/time objects that account) were managed by a ref counter and the other, user-defined objects left to the GC ?
