24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
7:13 p.m.
A real time incremental gc would be really cool. Some people claim they exist, but which languages have one?
Define "real time". I'll note that, after all the mud that's been slung at Java, you've been able to get low-pause-time parallel GC in Java for years and years, and can get "real time" GC for various of your favorite definitions of that term if you're willing to look a little.
I'd personally settle for soft real time, like "very rarely takes more than n ms in a single gc run" so that if you are calculating samples or something chances of getting a dropout are low. I think most people would be happy there. So Java sounds like it would do for me there. Unfortunately it has all the rest of that language attached to it :)