What's the go with the GC these days?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/6/2019 3:32 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Java GC continues to change and improve in leaps and bounds, both speed and
> latency. And indeed a lack of "stop the world time". The G1 GC that was seen
> as the very best there could be two Java versions ago has been surpassed again
> with Shenandoah. JVM GC people just keep coming up with ways of killing off GC
> cost.

1. Java has a very constrained interface to C, with a lot of rules to follow, 
mainly so the GC is not corrupted. D, being a systems programming language, 
simply does not have that luxury.

2. Let me know when Java lets go of write barriers!