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Re:Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rus... by georgewfraser on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:02PM (#25829113)
These new GCs are amazing technology, but they primarily target pause time, whereas in data processing the primary concern is the “headroom” of extra space in your heap to allow the GC to work efficiently.
Re:Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rus... by sitkack on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:25PM (#25829982)
For those cases large off heap structures of arrays can make hundreds of GB of data invisible to the GC.

One can do both.