What's the go with the GC these days?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/5/2019 8:34 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Of course, it's possible for Java compilers to optimize away some
> allocations if object lifetimes can be statically determined -- I don't
> know if any Java compilers actually do this.

They do. I forgot the jargon term for it, but they'll determine if the lifetime 
does not escape the function scope, and allocate it on the stack instead of the 
heap.