Random points from a D n00b CTO

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On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 17:15:08 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 13:54:51 UTC, Vic wrote:
>> Xeon CPU lets you use 128Gig, 386 gig, 512 gig, etc. It has 
>> become cheap to do that.
>
> Java can't hog gigs? Unbelievable.

It can but standard JVMs can get large pauses when your heap 
exceeds maybe ~4GB? In Java it's pretty hard to avoid creating 
loads of garbage but I suppose if you were very careful you could 
avoid the pauses.

It would probably be more cost effective to try out the Zing JVM 
from Azul Systems before doing a total rewrite.

I've been wondering if a C4-esque GC would be feasable in D for a 
while. It sounds a lot like a magic bullet though, I suspect 
there are downsides beyond the price tag somewhere. I would love 
a response from anyone who is knowledgeable in this area.