Many Java applications will gladly take 10%, or even higher, performance hit if that means more predictable GC times. If you own a latency sensitive applicatio

Many Java applications will gladly take 10%, or even higher, performance hit if that means more predictable GC times. If you own a latency sensitive application, then it's common for tail latencies to be dominated by GC times. Bringing tail latencies closer to median would be a huge win for those app, even if the median itself moved.