trace GC work

[Ali Çehreli]

On 02/18/2014 10:10 AM, Ruslan Mullakhmetov wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to trace GC allocation calls to determine times of
> program "death" and have some stats?
>
> So i want the following information:
>    - garbage collection starts at {time}
>    - garbage collection stops at {time}
>    - (optionally) gc took {time}, collected {size} bytes
>
> thanks.

I may be totally off but I vaguely remember that it is possible to plug 
in one's own garbage collector. It should be possible to write a garbage 
collector that collects some statistics before calling back the default 
GC functions.

Ali