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Finally, A Garbage Collector That Visibly Runs And Doesn't Pause The Whole World For 400 Ms
Java Backend Programming Debugging
17 days ago 132.1M views 0 shares
Finally, A Garbage Collector That Visibly Runs And Doesn't Pause The Whole World For 400 Ms
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.

Garbage Collection Failed Successfully
Programming Java Debugging Csharp Python
2 months ago 50.0M views 1 shares
Garbage Collection Failed Successfully
When your garbage collector decides to take a break and just... lie down on the job. These trash bins have achieved what every overworked garbage collection algorithm dreams of: complete and utter failure to stay upright. They're not leaking memory, they're leaking everything. The title really nails it—"Failed Successfully" is basically the Windows Update of oxymorons. It's like when your Java app throws an OutOfMemoryError but somehow keeps running for another 10 minutes before finally keeling over. These bins have achieved the rare state of being both completely non-functional AND technically still present in the heap. No references pointing to them anymore, but they're still taking up space on the street. Bonus points for the visual metaphor: just like how your garbage collector pauses your entire application to clean up memory, these bins have paused the entire sidewalk. At least they're not causing stop-the-world pauses... or are they?