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It’s not about speed (throughout) but about latency. If the GC takes (say) several minutes during a period of downtime so that it doesn’t have to run at all dur
by bobbylarrybobby 5y ago
It’s not about speed (throughout) but about latency. If the GC takes (say) several minutes during a period of downtime so that it doesn’t have to run at all during uptime, then it’s worth it.
- kaba0 5y agoWhat about ZGC then? If throughput is not the metric to optimize for, ZGC promises less than 1 ms pauses for up to TBs of heap size.
- pjmlp 5y agoJava suffers from Python 2 like syndrome with Java 8. Those shops aren't going to use ZGC. Nor they will profit from the several performance improvements, including the free JIT cache across runs with PGO data on Hotspot and J9, that used to be a commercial feature on third party JDKs.
- nextaccountic 5y agoWhat about a concurrent and parallel GC that doesn't stop the world?