Sun permgen & JRockit garbage collection

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Published on 2010-04-06T15:29:03Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 22:03 UTC
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In the Sun JVM, classes that are loaded by the class loader are put in permgen space and never gc'd. (Unless the class loader goes out of scope) It's my understanding that JRockit puts that same data on the heap instead. Is that data then subject to garbage collection?

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