It's important if you care about GC pauses (which you will eventually). Take a look at this report from the .NET based stack overflow guys: http://blog.marcgrav

It's important if you care about GC pauses (which you will eventually). Take a look at this report from the .NET based stack overflow guys: http://blog.marcgravell.com/2011/10/assault-by-gc.html?m=1 http://blog.marcgravell.com/2011/10/assault-by-gc.html?m=1 Note that they solved their problems using exactly the features being added in Java 9.