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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by fpoling on Friday May 16, 2025 @04:24PM (#44009493)
Java version updates typically change GC behavior. If one has highly tuned setup there is no guarantee that a newer version would not regress.

Another problem is crashes. Java runtime is highly reliable, but still bugs happens.

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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by Pet_Ant on Friday May 16, 2025 @08:07PM (#44010910)
Are you talking about performance or behaviour? I’ve never seen an issue caused by a GC.
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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by fpoling on Saturday May 17, 2025 @04:15AM (#44012852)
Latency spikes are the issue. Modern Java mostly solved this, but tuning GC settings is still the thing especially when Java runs on a big server.
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