On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:

> * Jonathan S. Shapiro:
>
> > As far as I know, there are *no* shipping collectors whose GC trigger
> > conditions are unpredictable. In every case, GC is an optional side
> effect
> > of allocation.
>
> What about concurrent collectors?  They compete for certain resources
> (CPU, memory bandwidth, some locks) with the mutator, and this is not
> very predictable.


Hoist on my own petard! Yes, concurrent collectors run when they please.
However, they do not run in a fashion that blocks the main thread. The
original concern in this sub-discussion was pause times.

shap
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