Re: synchronized code

Calling System.gc() don't necessarly executes garbage collecting, it
just gives a "hint" to the garbage collector... anyway, I don't see why
this would add so much overhead (creating lots of objects)

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 19:59, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:56:19PM -0800, Barry Lind wrote:
> > Oliver,
> >
> > What you need to be testing is syncronization vs. object allocation
> > *and* garbage collection. How are you testing the overhead that the
> > garbage collection adds since garbage collection in java by its nature
> > is something that is async.
> >
> > Perhaps having a System.gc() call at the end of each test would be
> > sufficient?
>
> I'm timing total throughput across all threads vs. elapsed real time so GC
> should be included. -verbose:gc shows that minor GCs are, in fact, happening
> frequently (2-3 per second)
>
> -O
>
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