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		frowaway001 on Dec 12, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even... > Then the app locks up for 60+ seconds at a time every few hours Given that the GC can generally process 1GB of live objects per second, I'd love to see an example where you have been working with 60GB+ heaps.

pkolaczk on Dec 13, 2013 [–]

And this is not taking into account that modern GCs do most or all of the work either without stopping the mutator (CMS, C4) or incrementally (G1), in smaller chunks. Times of STW collectors are long gone.

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