Awesome! Those are the assumptions I've been working under for months and I'm so happy that I wasn't way off on one of them!
I found that the standalone DDMS has an allocation tracker which is exactly the tool I needed. I immediately found my problem. Two problems: 1) I keep a running score on screen. The StringBuffer I'm using to build this is causing all types of char[] and String allocations. I'm not sure what I can do about that. 2) Calling Canvas.getMatrix() allocates a new matrix if one isn't currently being used. Interesting. I'll be able to work around that. Any ideas on what I can do about those strings? Basically I need to display #### Pts for the current score. On May 25, 3:34 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Green wrote: > > 1) Are local variables ever affected by GC if they never call new, > > either explicitly or implicitly? > > -- I'm asking if I have a field that is "private ArrayList<Dog> > > dogList;" and in my method, I say "ArrayList<Dog> dogList = > > this.dogList;" - that doesn't have any impact on GC, correct? It's > > just a pointer on the stack, right? > > The pointer is on the stack. The ArrayList itself and its Dogs are on > the heap. > > > 2) What about local variable arrays? Do those go in the heap (short > > lived, GC) or on the stack? > > The array is on the stack. If the array is a primitive array (int[]), > that covers everything. If the array is of objects (Dog[]), the Dog > instances are from the heap. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Need help for your Android OSS project?http://wiki.andmob.org/hado --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
