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Re:Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses by mnd999 on Friday September 17, 2021 @06:56AM (#28563804)
I very deliberately wrote “most applications”. Of course there are exceptions.
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Re:Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses by lmilcin on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:43AM (#28564258)
Your operating system you are running is not just "an exception".

Neither is software running in all your electronics.

All these require software that has some different requirements that typically are incompatible with unpredictability of a garbage collected dynamic language.

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