While true, gc tends to affect tail latencies as it can increase variance. Obviously not always the case, but without sufficient planning it's likely. Languages

While true, gc tends to affect tail latencies as it can increase variance. Obviously not always the case, but without sufficient planning it's likely. Languages with less stop the world problems tend to trade it for throughput, however if the application is not CPU bound it doesn't matter. The same can happen in a non gc language where a similar lack of allocation planning is done, but it tends to be considered more carefully because those languages really put allocations in your face.