22 Dec
2003
22 Dec
'03
5:34 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:13:42AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
performGC doesn't do anything that you can rely on :-) In practice, it probably starts all the finalizers that are ready to run, but it certainly doesn't wait for their termination.
Moreover, it is not guaranteed that performGC will trigger a full GC. Most often it will reclaim only the 0th generation. I think it would be useful to have something like performFullGC. Best regards, Tom -- .signature: Too many levels of symbolic links