Thanks, cross-posted.

On Jan 8, 2:32 am, "Andrew Stadler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a great topic, but is probably more suited to android-platform.
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:05 PM, ______ <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > With the phone sitting *idle*, Dalvik GCs every 3.5sec on average.  A
> > GC usually takes ~260ms.  That means that a whole 7.4% of the time it
> > is garbage collecting (albeit for only a quarter of a second each
> > time).  *7.4% of the time* the UI is completely unresponsive (and this
> > percentage increases once your UI starts allocating its own objects
> > during user interaction).  This results in all sorts of unpleasantness
> > that goes deeper than overall jerkiness of the UI:
>
> >http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1742
> >http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1740
>
> > Are there any plans to decrease the time needed for garbage collection
> > in Dalvik (maybe using a multi-stage object obsoletion and recycling
> > scheme like in Sun's JVM 1.6+)?
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