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Fair, but I think some GC'd languages (Java, JS) end up with a culture of boxed-everything where it's extremely easy to inadvertently throw off a ton of garbage

Fair, but I think some GC'd languages (Java, JS) end up with a culture of boxed-everything where it's extremely easy to inadvertently throw off a ton of garbage from an inner loop, even doing operations that in other languages would only ever instantiate objects on the stack.

tadfisher 5y ago
Newer Java runtimes are very conscious of tight garbage creation loops, and will generally either unbox or perform some internal object pooling to avoid GC pressure. Value types (targeting JDK 18? or maybe already in 17) will give developers a tool to create new stack-allocated types for performance-critical sections as well
- SureshG 5y ago
  Primitive types are not in java 17. Hoping to preview it on 18
  - TheMode 5y ago
    Seems unlikely, we are getting Loom before that. Don’t forget that we have been teased since 2014