Re: ClassCastException on Array content cast
Thomas Pornin wrote:
According to Arne Vajh?j <arne@vajhoej.dk>:
I would expect both allocation and GC cost to be independent of object
size.
Roughly speaking, GC passes are triggered based on allocation rate. If
you allocate bigger objects, then you trigger more GC passes, thus
increasing cost.
Not obvious. It will run more frequently, but it will have fewer
objects to GC.
Moreover, in many GC designs, cost of a GC pass
increases with the size of reachable objects; heuristically, many
objects are short-lived enough to become unreachable before the next GC
pass. By allocating bigger objects, you make GC run more often, which
increases the probability that a given object is still reachable at the
time the GC runs.
True.
[long explanation of common GC strategies omitted]
Thus, I stand my ground: all other things being equal, allocating a
bigger object, even a very short-lived object, increases costs related
to memory allocation and management.
I still do not see it as that obvious.
But a little bit of experimentation seems to indicate that
you are right.
A primitive test shows O(1) for 1-30 bytes and O(N) for >30 bytes.
Arne
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