Re:New Project: ZGC – “Z Garbage Collector” for Java
by hinkley on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:09PM
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Multi terabyte heaps would move the bar for Big Data way to the right and let most of us just ignore the whole thing.
Basic space versus time trade off. In eight years we’ll laugh about how stupid people were for doing it, and in another 8 laughing at the people who didn’t.
One of the reasons things like memcache became a thing is because we hit a point where same-switch tcp/ip round trips were smaller than average seek time for your hard drives. I gotta say, it’s a little crazy that it was faster to ask another machine a question than to look it up yourself, but there it is.
Basic space versus time trade off. In eight years we’ll laugh about how stupid people were for doing it, and in another 8 laughing at the people who didn’t.
One of the reasons things like memcache became a thing is because we hit a point where same-switch tcp/ip round trips were smaller than average seek time for your hard drives. I gotta say, it’s a little crazy that it was faster to ask another machine a question than to look it up yourself, but there it is.