You're missing the point. There a small number of games that are extremely performance sensitive. Mostly FPS games. Java is not a good choice for these. Everyth

You're missing the point. There a small number of games that are extremely performance sensitive. Mostly FPS games. Java is not a good choice for these. Everything else is fine. The ZGC really does deliver on its claim. Pauses are very small (milliseconds) and it can handle heaps that are several GBs in size. However, this doesn't even matter for most games. A few pauses are fine in, say, a real time strategy game. My kids used to play Minecraft on a 10 year old Intel Mac running Java. It was good enough.