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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to All   
   Re: OpenVMS system programming language   
   24 Feb 25 02:33:51   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:09:53 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > generational GC is very efficient at average but it has horrible real   
   > time characteristics due to the dreaded ms GC pauses - got fixed via   
   > special JVM's ...   
      
   None of which get around the basic problem that current CPUs depend   
   crucially for their speed on good program caching behaviour, and garbage   
   collection is ultimately a cache-hostile process.   
      
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