On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 10:09:18 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
The GC is preventing me from beating Java, but not because of
collections. It's the locking it does to allocate instead! I
don't know about the rest of you but I definitely didn't see
that one coming.
This is sadly unavoidable with the current GC. Simply put, it's
possible for a finalizer to spawn a thread, and so the GC always
has to lock before collecting, even if the program is
single-threaded at the beginning of the collection cycle.
