Re: Garbage Collector Cost

[Alex de Magalhães Machado <alex@...>]

Yes, that's another problem, and a complex one. I'm not expert, but Wikipedia might enlighten some things [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worst-case_execution_time

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 03:24:26PM -0200, Alex de Magalhães Machado wrote:
> But this latency already includes the maximum time a GC cycle could need to
> finish its work.

How can you tell in advance how long the GC cycle will take, though?
It's easy to know at runtime, but by then it may be too late.

B.