About caching Class instances and memory leak risk

[Daniel Sun]

Hi all,

     I find Groovy caches Class instances with strong reference[1][2], which
will prevent Class instances unloading and may cause memory leak. 

     Should we replace strong reference with soft reference? Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Daniel.Sun

[1]
https://github.com/apache/groovy/blob/master/src/main/groovy/groovy/lang/GroovyClassLoader.java#L93
[2]
https://github.com/apache/groovy/blob/master/src/main/groovy/groovy/lang/GroovyClassLoader.java#L99




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