javax GC API

[Suminda Dharmasena]

Hi,

Any thoughts plans to add API accessibility to the GC subsystems and the
ability to add our own GC.

Looking for the comments from the community and Oracle.

In addition I like to propose introducing the following annotations for
more predictable GC overheads:

   - GCAtBlockEnd
   - GCAtBlockExit - for loops the GC happens when the
   - GCAtLastReference
   - GCAtEndOfScope
   - GCOnAssignment
   - GCOnReturn
   - GCOnGCOfContainingObject - GC on GC of aggregate / composing object
   - GCOnStatementCompletion - GC parameters and return value (if not
   assigned) of a call when the function returns. Need to support statement
   level annotations.
   - GCOnLastResort - Only GC at last resort before outofmemory exception -
   class level
   - ExcludeFinalising - prevent finalizers running on the object - class
   level
   - GCUsingCurrentThread
   - GCUsingDefaultThread
   - GCUsingNewThread(Priority = n)

To do this annotations need to be extended to local variables and for some
application at the statement / block level.

At each point the objects pointed by the handle are GCed if there is
a possibility (reference count becomes 0). If a reference to an object is
specified to be

Suminda
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