Finally, A Garbage Collector That Visibly Runs And Doesn't Pause The Whole World For 400 Ms

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Finally, A Garbage Collector That Visibly Runs And Doesn't Pause The Whole World For 400 Ms
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Someone from Java, Indonesia literally becoming the Java Garbage Collector. The irony is beautiful—she's out there manually collecting trash bags while Java's GC is busy freezing your entire application during those lovely "stop-the-world" pauses.

For those who haven't felt the pain: Java's garbage collector occasionally decides to pause your entire program to clean up memory. Nothing runs. No threads. No requests. Just... waiting. Usually takes a few hundred milliseconds, which is an eternity in server time. Meanwhile, this person is doing actual, visible garbage collection without bringing society to a halt.

The dream: a GC that doesn't make your monitoring tools light up like a Christmas tree every few seconds. The reality: we just tune JVM flags and pretend everything's fine.

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