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		z92 on Nov 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Garbage Collection Garbage collection isn't that slow. I find allocating off the fragmented memory after collection slower.

vidarh on Dec 1, 2019 [–]

A good gc isn't slow. But a naive one that tends to be awful. E.g common problems involve thrashing cache by touching the entire heap regularly.

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