daniel dulitz wrote:
> If (as someone else indicated) Sun's JVM uses a conservative garbage
> collector, then even though one may force garbage collection, there's
> no way to force the garbage collector to recognize that a particular
> object is in fact garbage.
Sun's JVM, at least JDK 1.0.X and 1.1.X deploys a
conservative GC. It needs a conservative GC to pursue
objects preserved in local variables in native C code as
long as the native code is written in old style native
code interface that isn't JNI.
I think that a conservative GC is not needed if all
native code is written in JNI.
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