On 2/3/14, 5:36 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: > Boehm demonstrated in one of his papers (2004) that thread-safe ARC may > even lead to longer maximum pause times than a standard Tracing GC. At least this paper claims RC/GC parity has been reached: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/202163/rcix-oopsla-2013.pdf Andrei