Peter Becker wrote: > Swing might do the occasional System.gc() call or similar stunts. But it > might also just be the fact that the Qt objects have a finalizer, which > can hurt performance of the garbage collector in many ways, starting > with the time the method needs itself. > I'm rather certain Swing does not call System.gc() here. Objects with finalizers are just really expensive (as per one of the JavaOne talks this year). Actually using finalizers is really expensive, but even having finalizers on one's classes leads to more expensive code paths.
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