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Re:Garbage Collection by z92 on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:33PM (#21671741)
Garbage collection isn't that slow. I find allocating off the fragmented memory after collection slower.
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Re:Garbage Collection by vidarh on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:10AM (#21674294)
A good gc isn't slow. But a naive one that tends to be awful. E.g common problems involve thrashing cache by touching the entire heap regularly.
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