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pebal 4 days ago

Azul C4 is not a pauseless GC. In the documentation it says "C4 uses a 4-stage concurrent execution mechanism that eliminates almost all stop-the-world pauses."

kelseyfrog 4 days ago | parent [-]

Except the documentation says

> C4 differentiates itself from other generational garbage collectors by supporting simultaneous-generational con- currency: the different generations are collected using concurrent (non stop-the-world) mechanisms

pebal 3 days ago | parent [-]

It doesn't matter at all. C4 uses STW.

kelseyfrog 3 days ago | parent [-]

I wish I could have learned more from this interaction than it doesn't matter.