status of gcj's boehm collector?

Thu Dec 6 10:49:00 GMT 2001

Boehm, Hans writes:
 > 
 > Thinking about this some more, I think the current System.gc() call
 > actually makes a little bit of sense if you run out of some
 > non-memory resource, and want to run both the collector and
 > finalizers.
Like file descriptors, f'rexample.
We depend on system.gc closing unused file descriptors. I suspect
we'd run out of those long before running out of memory in some
applications.
Andrew.