/** Soft reference objects, which are cleared at the discretion of the garbage collector in response to memory demand.
Suppose that the garbage collector determines at a certain point in time that an object is softly reachable. At that time it may choose to clear atomically all soft references to that object and all soft references to any other softly-reachable objects from which that object is reachable through a chain of strong references. At the same time or at some later time it will enqueue those newly-cleared soft references that are registered with reference queues.
All soft references to softly-reachable objects are guaranteed to have been cleared before the virtual machine throws an OutOfMemoryError
.
Otherwise no constraints are placed upon the time at which a soft reference will be cleared or the order in which a set of such references to different objects will be cleared. Virtual machine implementations are, however, encouraged to bias against clearing
recently-created or recently-used soft references.
/* /* /* This means that as long as one of the soft references stays alive, they all stay alive. If we /* Try as hard as possible to allocate some memory. /* Do a full garbage collection, which may grow the /* static const GcSpec kGcBeforeOomSpec = {