garbage collection take too much time to execute....

Wed Jun 18 10:37:00 GMT 2008

- - wrote:
> Hi,
> I found a strange behaviour on code generated by gcj when compare its output with code generated by eclipse.
>> Mainly the code generated by gcj take too much time to perform a memory garbage collection (about 5 seconds) instead of only 15 milliseconds of byte code generated by eclipse.
>> The problem seems to happens when there are canvas and transform operations. I attach a simple snippet code that write a vertical text on canvas in order to reproduce the behaviour.
>> The gcj compiler I use is:
> $ gcj --version
> gcj.exe (GCC) 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
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>> with the swt version 3349: "swt-gdip-win32-3349.dll" and "swt-win32-3349.dll"
>> I'm new of this discussion list, hoping not annoy you. It is a trouble or it is just a mistake on usage of transform?
> thanks you,

I addition to what Hans said, I have to tell you that gcj 3.4.x is so old
that it's very unlikely that anyone will want to fix any problems.
Andrew.