I assume you are referring to the Go GC efforts. I would imagine (someone with zero compiler, VM design, or PL design experience), that is a humongous undertak

I assume you are referring to the Go GC efforts. I would imagine (someone with zero compiler, VM design, or PL design experience), that is a humongous undertaking. But if it is interesting to anyone, I used to follow news about the FOSS counter-effort to Azul (which ironically did start open source with OpenJDK, but then what corporate from what I understood from Azul people posting OpenJDK lists), Shenandoah. https://rkennke.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/shenandoah-a-pauseless-gc-for-openjdk/ https://rkennke.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/shenandoah-a-pausel... I will start looking into this again because I do not remember hearing much since.