I think this is more an article about garbage collecting vm's, namely the JVM, than it is about java, the language. The JVM is being used in Mt. Everest-sized

I think this is more an article about garbage collecting vm's, namely the JVM, than it is about java, the language. The JVM is being used in Mt. Everest-sized workloads. Object pooling is a useful tool when architecting something huge and performance sensitive.