Re:GC Tuning Confessions of a Performance Engineer
by pron on Saturday May 30, 2015 @12:50AM
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> GC does help with ABA style concurrent problems
I wasn't just referring to that. GC helps with pretty much any concurrent data structure, lock-free or not. For example, read-write locks don't scale too well (certainly no beyond the core count we're quickly coming up against on servers), and GC enables easy optimistic locking.
I wasn't just referring to that. GC helps with pretty much any concurrent data structure, lock-free or not. For example, read-write locks don't scale too well (certainly no beyond the core count we're quickly coming up against on servers), and GC enables easy optimistic locking.