ClassValue rooting objects after it goes away?

[Rémi Forax]

No,
it's not expected !

Rémi 

Le 6 août 2015 20:26:43 CEST, Charles Oliver Nutter <headius at headius.com> a écrit :
>Pardon me if this has been discussed before, but we had a bug (with
>fix) reported today that seems to indicate that the JVM is rooting
>objects put into a ClassValue even if the ClassValue goes away.
>
>Here's the pull request: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/pull/3228
>
>And here's one example of the root trace leading back to our JRuby
>runtime. All the roots appear to be VM-level code:
>
>https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9213410/class-values-leak.png
>
>Is this expected? If we have to stuff a WeakReference into the
>ClassValue it seriously diminishes its utility to us.
>
>- Charlie
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