What's the go with the GC these days?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/6/2019 12:28 PM, Reimer Behrends wrote:
> In general, a modern precise stop-the-world collector should be able to
> handle 1GB worth of pointers in something like .2 seconds on modern
> hardware,
I use Thunderbird mail, latest version, and it has random pauses that are up to 
10 seconds. It'll happen when I'm in the middle of typing, which is frustrating.

I'm not positive it is a GC pause, maybe it's something else, but the randomness 
of it suggests it is GC.