question about Unsafe.allocateInstance

Li Li fancyerii at gmail.com
Fri Dec 23 17:46:15 UTC 2011


Java's memory management is great. it reduce memory leak. But in some
situation, I want to manage it by myself.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Krystal Mok <rednaxelafx at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unsafe.allocateInstance() is implemented in HotSpot VM by directly calling
> JNI's AllocObject() function [1].
> An object instance is allocated in the Java heap, but no constructors are
> invoked for this instance.
> This method is mainly used to implement BootstrapConstructorAccessorImpl
> in the class library.
>
> Li, what is your original intent for doing explicit memory management in
> Java?
>
> - Kris
>
> [1]:
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jni/spec/functions.html#wp16337
>
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de> wrote:
>
>> * Li Li:
>>
>> >      And I also find a method named allocateInstance, which seems what I
>> > want.
>>
>> allocateInstance() allocates objects on the Java heap, just like new.
>> I'm pretty sure that there is no way at all to allocate instances
>> which are not on the Java heap and subject to garbage collection.
>>
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