manual memory management

[Dan]

On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 23:04:48 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> Besides Web applications, I also took part in projects that 
> ported high
> performance C++ daemons to Java.
>
Curious as to why? What was to be gained/overcome?

> These were servers doing millions of data processing 
> manipulations per
> second of telecommunication data used in mobile networks.
>

Did it prove a worthwhile move?
Did the move relieve any issues with C++?
Was GC an issue in the end?

Thanks,
Dan