Java Memory Management: A Tragedy of the Commons

Friday, February 11th, 2005

I was working with NetBeans the other day, debugging some of my own code. I had been running the debugger repeatedly, tracing through the code over and again. NetBeans gradually slowed down, and stepping through lines of code became downright painful. I finally stopped and restarted it. (I wrote this last Spring, in March 2004 ...