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GC time is proportional to the number of objects tracked by the GC not the size of the heap, although they do tend to be related. Without knowledge of how many

by en4bz 10y ago

GC time is proportional to the number of objects tracked by the GC not the size of the heap, although they do tend to be related. Without knowledge of how many objects are being tracked this is a useless metric.

socmag 10y ago
Hehe I thought that as well when I read the headline. "We have three root objects of 6GB a piece!"... ummm :P I'm sure they must be talking about something other than that, but it did make me giggle a bit.
tapirl 10y ago
What the the tweet mentioned is GC pause time, not GC time.