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Or, you know, actual garbage collection (generational, JVM-style)

• saagarjha 6y ago
  …which has its own issues, of course.
• bonzini 6y ago
  If you compare Cassandra and ScyllaDB, the garbage collection causes serious problem with 99.9% latency.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    Only because Java is yet to support value types. In languages like Nim and D, where all C++ allocation mechanisms are available alongside a GC heap, there are plenty of ways to improve performance.
• rat9988 6y ago
  The whole point of scylladb, which the author has extensively worked on, is that we can be a lot faster without garbage collection.
  • smitty1e 6y ago
    "Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast"[1] Especially when the lifecycle cost of the corner case debugging is folded in. [1] https://sites.google.com/site/lehijujitsu/slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast https://sites.google.com/site/lehijujitsu/slow-is-smooth-smo...