> Even the best "real world" garbage collectors pause the program for order of magnitude a hundred milliseconds, no? If you think GC pauses are measured in mil

> Even the best "real world" garbage collectors pause the program for order of magnitude a hundred milliseconds, no? If you think GC pauses are measured in milliseconds, and not microseconds, then you're reading horribly outdated material. You're off by three orders of magnitude for an off-the-shelf GC with no tuning.