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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by ghusbands on Saturday September 01, 2018 @02:30AM (#17890560)
That only applies in a few specific cases. Basically, a linked list or an array of objects containing no further references. Otherwise, those internal references get immediately followed and significantly dilute the locality.

There have been garbage collectors designed to improve locality of predictable accesses, but they are not the norm.

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