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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by jlouis on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:05AM (#28325986)
Any memory allocation scheme faces that trade-off, more or less; especially so in a concurrent environment that also employs parallelism.
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by loup-vaillant on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:37PM (#28329888)
Precisely. That’s why I was suspicious of this claim that there is a GC out there that is both "extremely fast" and has "minimal pauses". Something’s got to give.
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