GC statistics (was Re: big project ported)

Wed Oct 27 08:56:00 GMT 1999

Jeff wrote:
> Yes. That's what I'm finding out too. My code is greatly affected by
> the frequency of allocation, not the overall size.

Can you build a statically linked version of your app? One bad thing
right now is that there are a lot of calls between libgcj.so and
libgcjgc.so during gc. Calls across shared library boundaries are
slow.
Eventually we will have to move the java specific marking into the
gc's inner-loop, but I'm curious about the real cost of the shared
library calls.
AG
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