[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] JJack 0.1 - Java for JACK initial release

[Joern Nettingsmeier]

Jens Gulden wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Jens M Andreasen schrieb:
> 
>> This might be totally unrelated, but how do you avoid garbage-collection
>> kicking in at random?
> 
> 
> It kind of is unrelated...
> But do you know about the functionality of package "java.lang.ref"? The 
> API-doc says:
> 
>> Package java.lang.ref Description
>> Provides reference-object classes, which support a limited degree of 
>> interaction with the garbage collector. A program may use a reference 
>> object to maintain a reference to some other object in such a way that 
>> the latter object may still be reclaimed by the collector. A program 
>> may also arrange to be notified some time after the collector has 
>> determined that the reachability of a given object has changed. 

i think the question is, how do you program real-time applications 
in java? you'd need to switch off the garbage collector entirely 
when the real-time thread runs, and only activate it when the system 
has cycles to spare. how do you do that?


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