Monthly Archives: November 2009

Android: allocation-free code avoids the GC freeze

10th
Nov. × ’09

When a Java program creates new objects (using new), it results in the subsequent invocation of the Garbage Collector to free up memory. On Android an invocation of the GC takes of an order of 100ms, so it produces a user-visible short freeze of the application. Especially when the application is doing some form of [...]

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