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Re: Patch: Bitmap descriptor GC marking
- To: java-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: Patch: Bitmap descriptor GC marking
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 22:19:05 +1200
- References: <391533E6.4BE4D970@albatross.co.nz>
Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> - the heap in some cases grows much bigger than usual when using arrays.
> bigArrays() : .......... 46094ms (heap: total=63420K free=17804K)
There's something else I noticed about that. If the "Byte" class in "bigArrays()"
is replaced with <some class that has at least one pointer>, the problem goes
away...
regards
[ bryce ]