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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by lumost on Saturday May 28, 2022 @01:58AM (#31537971)
I don't see why a GC couldn't be told avoid stalling in critical code paths. From a practical standpoint, non-generational GCs have no hard requirement to ever stall.
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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by jcelerier on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:27AM (#31538070)
But can them in practice, and ten years ago when $PROJECT was started and a tech stack had to be chosen ?
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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by pjmlp on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:13AM (#31538544)
Given how long GC enabled languages with manual memory management capabilities do exist, 10 years ago there were already options available, D would have been an option.
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