No.JVM GCs (JRockit, Hotspot, IBM) have developed much further than what Smalltalk did. The G1 GC is especially nice. I found http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/0

No.JVM GCs (JRockit, Hotspot, IBM) have developed much further than what Smalltalk did. The G1 GC is especially nice. I found http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-differs-in-the-three-big-jvms/ http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-... a very interesting - and understandable - article.