Class unloading (Was: Heap fragmentation (Was: Debugging "Leaks" With Boehm-GC))

Tue Jan 31 11:54:00 GMT 2006

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin@egholm-nielsen.dk> writes:
 > 
 > [ class unloading ]
 > Martin> Since it's in the JLS it may be standard GCJ behaviour?
 > 
 > We don't really implement this yet. It might work for interpreted
 > classes, I'm not sure.
 > 
 > We haven't made this work for compiled classes yet. Ideally we would
 > unmap shared libraries when all the classes from that .so have been
 > collected.
I am actively working on this.
Andrew.