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1) sadly current WeakHashMap implementation is quite broken:
- the 'orphant' value becomes reclaimable by the garbage collector only when put(), remove(), or clear() is called
- even if such method is called this does not guarantee that the 'orphant' are reclaimed in the current java kits (both Sun and IBM - my tests show that)
This surely may be corrected if core VM and threading are refactored and WeakHashMap implemenataion is build into the VM - IMO its worth the trouble
2) Maybe I'm over-crazy about performance, but I like very much to keeping pooled objects ready for use (the alternative is to drop object as soon you no longer need it and new() a new one when you're in need of a similar one).
But of course I want such pool to get automatically freed if the VM runs low on memory.
Unfortunatly all the pools that I could imagine built with WeakReference-s in programmers (not VM) space were not perfect.
If the ObjectPool implementation will be built into the VM it may even have the propery of intellectual memory control - as soon as VM runs low on memory the objects among those kept only via WeakReference-s, WeakHashMap-s and ObjectPool-s that haven't been used for the longest time would get cleaned.
It would be even better to consider memery used but this sounds somewhat tricky due to possible interobject dependencies..
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