From a recent talk on the latest JDK GC, it seems to require even more tuning parameters than before. So the best performance achievable may be higher, but with

From a recent talk on the latest JDK GC, it seems to require even more tuning parameters than before. So the best performance achievable may be higher, but with more manual work. Which is along the same trade-off curve, with malloc/free on one end, and a very simple GC on the other.