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[Somedude]

Le 12/12/2011 16:00, Timon Gehr a écrit :
> 
> I certainly don't confuse them (GC wouldn't be very interesting if the
> two were the same), and as I understand it there exist very few GC
> implementations that _guarantee_ responsiveness over a long time period.
> This effect gets a lot bigger as memory usage and reference mutation
> rate grow. It is very easy for a sufficiently big Java application, for
> instance, to get responsiveness problems.

Is the GC responsiveness increased when there are less objects to
collect ? Wouldn't it be much increased if most small objects (strings,
numbers, date/time objects that account) were managed by a ref counter
and the other, user-defined objects left to the GC ?