[1286] in java-interest
Garbage collection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip R Brenan)
Mon Aug 28 20:08:28 1995
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 15:48:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Philip R Brenan <phil@bga.com>
To: java-interest <java-interest@java.sun.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508281452.KAA08005@goblin.mitre.org>
Several people wrote me to point out that Java uses a mark and sweep
method to locate all unreferenced objects. Surely this is very
inefficient - as it is order(number of objects) in time? Suppose I had
10**7 objects - not inconceivable? Am I missing something here?
Phil
http://www.realtime.net/~phil
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