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RE: GC statistics (was Re: big project ported)
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hboehm at exch dot hpl dot hp dot com>
- Subject: RE: GC statistics (was Re: big project ported)
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 22:24:04 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: "'Jonathan P. Olson'" <olson at mmsi dot com>, Godmar Back <gback at cs dot utah dot edu>, krab at daimi dot au dot dk, bryce at albatross dot co dot nz, jsturm at sigma6 dot com, java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <34E36C05935CD311AE5000A0C9B6B0BF011A150E@hplex3.hpl.hp.com>
>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hboehm@exch.hpl.hp.com> writes:
Hans> I do have a very partial implementation of a copy-collected
Hans> "nursery" for our collector. But my inclination at the moment
Hans> is to put that off a while longer. Based on my measurements,
Hans> I'm not completely convinced that its potential benefit is worth
Hans> the added complexity.
We currently use an object's address as its hash code (unless the
hashCode method is overridden, of course). We'd need a new strategy
if we had a copying nursery. This isn't that big of a deal, but it
does add a new wrinkle in the form of an additional space tradeoff.
T