Ahem... Wangjammer5 wrote: > > > My take on the garbage collection issue would be to (if it were > > possible) have all the garbage collection done at night, or > > perhaps on the weekends when I'm doing other stuff. What do I > > care if the cursor seizes up, if I'm at the beach at the time. > > I'm sorry, but to be frank it's obvious you don't understand garbage > collection at all. > > It has to happen or you run out of memory. That's java for you. The > garbage collector scans every object that has been created in your VM and > looks to see if there are any more references to it in any code that is > active. If not, it will free the memory used by that object.
If you look at the source of Runtime.gc() (line 488) you'll see that it can be overridden. So, all that needs doing is to implement JPeg or Fractal decompression on the memory stack. In javart.dll (or its Linux equivalent - I think its called javalnx.so) the octal dump is : 017 AF02 00001100100100010001 018 AD02 0000100100701000!111 : which is the generic machine code for BITSET RAMPUSH So as long as memory is stored compressed (because it is just zeroes and one's remember) I see no problem deferring garbage collection until at least Tuesday. This has to be my last post on this matter as I have recently been appointed King of Spain and need to choose a royal mantle. WPE Febuarias 45 (after March) PS Did you know that all of our noses are on the moon. It's really a well kept secret, don't you think. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Email may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is intended solely for the addressee(s) named. If you have received this information in error, or are advised that you have been posted this Email by accident, please notify the sender by return Email, do not redistribute it, delete the Email and keep no copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
