Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.neu.edu.cn!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Wanja Gayk Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Controlling the Garbage Collector Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 13:36:53 +0200 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <6KSdnTwztJvtR0bSnZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d@giganews.com> <_JmdnUu_Z-scJEHSnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.176.245.83 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1340451409 88882 77.176.245.83 (23 Jun 2012 11:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 11:36:49 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15543 In article , esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid says... > I, too, am mystified about what he's up to. It's hard to reconcile > an interest in tight control over GC with "Something that scales up > efficiently to distributed computing" -- the aims seem divergent. I agree. If it was about realtime constraints I would understand it, but the "distributed" part seems to contradict this, even though timeouts exist. Maybe it's just because sometimes people don't like to give up control they once had, just to be sure they could if they needed, even though in 99.99% of all cases they don't. Kind regards, Wanja -- ..Alesi's problem was that the back of the car was jumping up and down dangerously - and I can assure you from having been teammate to Jean Alesi and knowing what kind of cars that he can pull up with, when Jean Alesi says that a car is dangerous - it is. [Jonathan Palmer] --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---