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Re:Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail la... by teacpde on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @03:36PM (#16531893)
> A concurrent GC spends CPU cycles on different cores to do its work, which means it will not cause latency outliers in the threads processing the requests.

That makes sense, how about GC for single-threaded languages, e.g. Nodejs?

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Re:Open-sourcing a 10x reduction in Apache Cassandra tail la... by tytytytytytytyt on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:03AM (#16534772)
Just because a language is single threaded in the code you write doesn't mean it doesn't use threads behind the scenes, like for GC or other things.
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