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"This brings the performance of reference counting on par with that of a well tuned mark-sweep collector." I'm not really convinced. How well does it stack up
by gsg 13y ago
"This brings the performance of reference counting on par with that of a well tuned mark-sweep collector."
I'm not really convinced. How well does it stack up when the competition is a copying generational collector?
- pcwalton 13y agoThey compare against a copying collector.
- pkolaczk 13y ago... implemented in Jikes RVM which is very far behind Oracle JVM. Herz and Berger (2005) based their experiment on Jikes RVM, too, and incorrectly concluded that GC needs 5x more memory to have acceptable performance comparable to malloc/free. Someone else redid their experiments using Oracle JVM and it turned out that it was not 5x, but 20%.