Re: class gc

From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 17 1998 - 16:32:24 EST

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>
> On Dec 17, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
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> >> A class or interface may be unloaded if and only if its class loader
> >> is unreachable (the definition of unreachable is given in JLS
> >> 12.6.1). Classes loaded by the bootstrap loader may not be unloaded.
>
> > Do you cite this because you are making an argument that classloaders
> > need to keep their classes alive somehow?
>
> Yep

 I think I answered that in another mail; mails must have crossed.

        - Godmar

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