On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:32:00PM +0900, Squidster wrote: > So the million dollar question is: Why the GC is not able to > mark/sweep cloned objects, whereas it can obviously GC fresh > instances? I think a more reasonable question is why I am not able to reproduce your problem. I still feel that there is something you are leaving out. Could you please post the smallest complete program that reliably demonstrates the problem? Paul