Re: real-time Java

[Wesley Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com>]

> But in practice my experience with java libraries is that the
> developers relieved of the necessity to free memory explicitly, tend
> to forget about memory management completely (i.e. not clear stale
> references). You're stuck with OutOfMemoryError even though there is
> no "garbage" per se in the running app, and you really cannot do much.
> You cannot contact the vendor and say - "your library leaks".

I was amused at JBuilder one day.  I pulled down an
"info" menu option.  At the bottom of the little widget
that popped up was the amount of memory in use.  Even though
I was doing absolutely nothing, the number kept slowly rising.
When it hit some threshold, GC was triggered and it started over.