Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Garbage Collection of String literals

Tapan/Saurabh
Your thoughts on this--Does the GC handle the String literals. Since the String literals are interned,Does this mean that GC would not collect these string literals. If it does how/when?
--Ramraj

Monday, May 19, 2008

GC: JAVA 1.4

There are 3-4 algos specified by jvm 1.4 specifications. namely
reference counting
tracing
stop n copy
generational.
mark n sweep
Does JVM spec say that any of the above algo has the advantage over the other and the situations when one should be used and how do we use any one of them. Do we specify them somewhere as JAVA_OPTIONS?

--This is the first post. I'll detail about this thing later on.This post would serve as a startup for our blogs.