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Re:Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Proce... by sorokod on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:45AM (#21873190)
"over reliance on churning through a lot of short-term garbage"

this is handled super efficiently by generational garbage collectors.

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Re:Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Proce... by ec109685 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @12:13PM (#21873378)
Right, you only pay for the memory reachable when the slow / blocking part do the garbage collection runs, so a lean program that churns through small objects can be very responsive.
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