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In the end, it’s your problem.

Ted Neward writes about garbage collection, motivated by Jason Whittington's reference to my lamenting about GC problems:

You need to know how it works. [...] So knowing the details of your managed environment's underlying resource allocation/deallocation implementation can be crucial to getting decent performance out of your enterprise system, just as knowing when you had to take control of C++'s default memory allocation algorithms (by overloading new and...

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