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From: "Joshua Davis" <jsd2000@bellatlantic.net>
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Subject: RE: Object retention problem with javac
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:48:23 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Reeves [mailto:Nick.Reeves@gtl.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 4:43 AM
> To: 'ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: Object retention problem with javac
>
> I noticed the memory usage of my Ant tasks was growing large so I ran Ant
> with the Heap analysis tool and got the follow results.
> ... snip ...
>
> The problem with this is that since javac runs in the same JVM it
> holds onto
> 4 objects (Hashtable entry, Identifier, String, char array) for
> every unique
> Java language identifer ever seen since the build started.
>
> Solution proposed: run calls to javac inside their own ClassLoader
>
> Comments ?
>

Just a thought: A potential quick fix could be to run javac in it's on JVM.
Something like a 'fork' attribute on the <java> task.

Josh Davis
jsd2000@bellatlantic.net