First, this table is "native".
Second: there is no happens-before edge from the last
thread that dropped a hard reference to some object to
the first thread the calles WeakReference.get() and
receives null on that object.
Doron.
--- Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu> wrote:
> I suppose I stand corrected ... but I should add
> that the JVMs I tend to
> work with never unload classes, so string constants
> in loaded code go into
> a global table, from which they are never removed.
>
> If strings are actually interned, then there is an
> interning table
> somewhere. To be able to collect such strings, the
> table would have to
> operate using weak pointers (one of the
> java.lang.Reference
> classes). Perhaps it is indeed coded that way.
> However, if any thread has
> hold of such an object (e.g., via having
> synchronized on it but not yet
> released the lock), then the object will not be
> collected.
>
> Regards -- Eliot
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