Re: synchronized code

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:56:19PM -0800, Barry Lind wrote:
> Oliver,
>
> What you need to be testing is syncronization vs. object allocation
> *and* garbage collection.  How are you testing the overhead that the
> garbage collection adds since garbage collection in java by its nature
> is something that is async.
>
> Perhaps having a System.gc() call at the end of each test would be
> sufficient?

I'm timing total throughput across all threads vs. elapsed real time so GC
should be included. -verbose:gc shows that minor GCs are, in fact, happening
frequently (2-3 per second)

-O