[Info-vax] OpenVMS system programming language

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at nz.invalid
Sun Feb 23 21:33:51 EST 2025


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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