Is Android garbage collector pausing other apps while running?

Question

I\'ve found some information about the Android garbage collector that are contradictions to me.

Android Devevelopers Guide says:

Android 3.0 is th

Answer 1

Complete independence is rather impossible: garbage collector and program use the same memory and have to communicate somehow. Even "pauseless" GCs, like Azul's (btw, a good read: http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html), have technical pauses. Dalvik is probably (pure guess, based on anecdotal evidence and resources likely poured into JVMs during the last 15 years by the likes of IBM, Sun and Oracle) years behind the newest technology found in JVMs, so I suspect that the pauses will be longer.