Re: [Sablevm-developer] Threads free list

[Archie C. <ar...@de...>]

Archie Cobbs wrote:
> It appears that the free list for threads is not actually used.
> I.e., when a thread exits, it is never put on the VM threads free list.
> The file thread.c contains this comment:
> 
> 	/* leak it for now... */
> 
> Is there some bug or problem exposed when threads are put back on
> the free list? It seems like it would be simple enough to implement
> this, and I'm wondering if there's a more subtle problem that I'm
> missing.

I just realized that you can't free the _svmt_JNIEnv object until
the corresponding java.lang.Thread object is GC'd. So it seems that
java.lang.Thread needs a finalize() method that does this... ?

-Archie

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