"Benoit Cerrina" <benoit.cerrina / writeme.com> wrote: >How did you get those results, I used both -Xloggc:log.gc and >later -verbose:gc to no avail. Well, I guessed :-) Actually, I used "-verbose:gc" and counted the lines (28) which were printed, each telling that the available memory was reduced by 500 KB - as I interpret the result. Then, I assumed that 40 bytes is a nice typical object size (8 instance variables or 16 characters) and did some math. >attached you'll find the test I used , this is just the original java bench >adapted too the new regex package. It's exactly the same code as I used. bye -- Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox