Andrew Rowley wrote: >> A la Commodore 64 garbage collection.... I still have bad dreams of that >> infamous C64 garbage collection... ;-)
>Not that I'm saying garbage collection is bad... every language has overhead >from tracking free and in use memory. Java defers that overhead to garbage >collection time instead of doing it continuously. Indeed. I'll RTFM about Java and garbage collections. Thanks! >What IS bad is when it needs to check which objects are still referenced, and >half the address space is paged out. Ouch. I also observed that when referring a large table or array and parts of it need to be swapped in/out. Thanks for your notes. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
