Re: Ranting about JVM's default memory limits...
Tom Anderson wrote:
If you're compacting the objects that survive the nursery, you're
copying each of them, so this is no cheaper than copying them all into
an existing older generation.
Not necessarily. If say 50% of the tenured objects eventually are
collected, then you only have to copy the equivalent of those 50% of
objects to fill the holes they once occupied.
You may not end up with 100% memory compaction (there may be small holes
left over that you can't fill because the new objects aren't exactly the
same size as the old ones) but I'm not sure that 100% compaction should
be the goal either.
To bring this discussion full circle, it seems to me that the .NET
garbage collector was brought up because it's an excellent balance
between "do some compaction" and "grow the heap." Unlike Sun's GC, it
works very well with a strategy to grow the heap so an app can use all
available memory, with out suffering heavy compaction algorithms.
It's an answer to Sun's protestations of "we can do this, but it's
complicated." No, the proper algorithm is simple.
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