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The hardware still evolves, so at the least, garbage collectors will have to be tuned or self-tune themselves for that. I also think it’s unlikely that a GC ca
by Someone 4y ago
The hardware still evolves, so at the least, garbage collectors will have to be tuned or self-tune themselves for that.
I also think it’s unlikely that a GC can be written that handles both terabyte sized heaps on machines with hundreds of cores and megabyte sized heaps on single-CPU systems well.
- mike_hearn 4y agoSingle GC, no. Single VM, yes. HotSpot serial GC is designed for the latter use case. I forgot to mention it before but it's still there and supported, I think even selected automatically in some cases. But there aren't so many single core systems with megabyte sized heaps anymore. Even watches are multi-core these days.