GC statistics (was Re: big project ported)

[Tom Reilly]

Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> writes:

> My code is greatly affected by the frequency of allocation, not the
> overall size.

This is a shot in the dark but would it be possible to reduce the work
the garbage collector has to do by allocating temporary objects that
live within the scope of a method call on the stack?  It'd be
interesting to see some statistics on what percentage of objects
created in a typical Java program are temporary objects.  I'd suspect
its pretty high.

Do any VM's do this?

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