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...t; org.xapian object is overriden and among other things it calls native > method that removes the object's "C-shadow" from the hashmap. Eric's the real authority on this (since he wrote it) but that sounds about right to me. > This is done in a synchronized fashion (under pthread_lock). It seems > to be working fine, however when large application runs in a tight > loop it is slowed down by garbage collection. I'm not sure I see why this would slow things down (unless it's an SMP machine), but there is some overhead to this locking, and it complicates building on...