On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is cycle of unused objects? Circular references of unused objects?


Exactly. It's when you have two objects A and B, each referring to the
other and no other object in memory pointing to one of them. Old GCs
had problem with that because they used reference counters. In this
case, the counters equals to one in both objects whereas the GC
collects only objects with a zero-count.

-- 
Damien Cassou
Peter von der Ahé: «I'm beginning to see why Gilad wished us good
luck». (http://blogs.sun.com/ahe/entry/override_snafu)
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