Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps

Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by gameswithgo on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:35PM (#17879429)

You can also make a 3d game of large scale, and just let it have hiccups occasionally and still make a billion dollars.

Of course those of us hosting servers for that particular game would have saved a ton of money and pain if they had not used Java, or used Java more cleverly.

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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by pjmlp on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:48PM (#17879568)

The point is that they should have used Java more cleverly.

One can make a game in C++ and make it just as bad.

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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by gameswithgo on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:57PM (#17880178)

The lack of value types makes the code quite unwieldy to control memory layout vs C++, or C#, or Go, or Rust or anything

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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by pjmlp on Thursday August 30, 2018 @04:53PM (#17880652)

Again, not every game needs to be the next Crysis.

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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by thomasz on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:43PM (#17879517)

Allocating every 3d coordinate on the heap probably wasn't a good idea.

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