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Could you please expand on this. When garbage collection works in applications and webservers that handle large number of requests, why wouldn't it work in OS k
by hi41 7y ago
Could you please expand on this. When garbage collection works in applications and webservers that handle large number of requests, why wouldn't it work in OS kernel?
- arcticbull 7y agoIt introduces indeterminism into a system that strives to have as little as possible. You could of course, but you probably shouldn’t.
- inlined 7y agoGC can create noticeable pauses in the whole windows UX because windows scales vertically in a machine not horizontally in a DC. And per another comment I made, if your OOM handler needs to JIT it can be catastrophic.