memory leaks and java ...

Thu Apr 3 19:00:00 GMT 2003

> From: Adam Megacz [mailto:adam@megacz.com]
> Since mingwm10.dll is NOT present (we're not using -mthreads), we leak
> about 24 bytes of memory per thread created. Somehow that doesn't
> bother me, especially since a conservative garbage collector is likely
> to leak more than that.
I haven't followed the rest of this discussion, but this doesn't seem like a good thing to me. At 10threads/second, that's 1K every 4 seconds, or about 1M an hour. The conservative collector "leaks" should be temporary or one time leaks, not something that keeps growing.
Hans