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		twic on Dec 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How low can you go? Ultra low latency Java in the ... C and C++ (and Rust!) can put objects on the stack, so you have a lot more leeway to write normal idiomatic code without hitting the allocator. When Java gets value objects, this sort of work will begin to get a lot easier in Java as well, but there will be a lot of catching-up to do.

scott00 on Dec 21, 2018 | [–]

A very good point. Most of my GC whispering is done in .NET, which also has value types, but I was guessing that escape analysis in Java would solve most of the problems in this regard. Is that not actually the case?

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