Re: [cp-patches] RFC: Use WeakHashMap in java.util.ResourceBundle

[Robert Schuster]

Hi,

> Unfortunately I don't think this is the correct solution.  In practice
> I think this patch would not cause caching for very long -- the next
> GC cycle would notice that there are no other references to the keys
> in the map, and it would be cleared.

> One idea would be a map where the entries are soft references, so that
> (in theory) they are only cleared when memory is needed
OK, I thought WeakHashMap would work this way.

> (though at
> least libgcj treats soft references like weak ones atm).  Or, we could
> have a fixed size cache that removes the least-recently-used entry.
We have so many VM with so many different runtime parameters. I am in favor of
implementing a SoftHashMap to let the GC decide when to clean out unused 
references.

cu
Robert