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jacaetevha on March 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection...

And (IIRC) much of the JVM's GC and VM work came directly from the Smalltalk world and the Strongtalk guys.

Uchikoma on March 24, 2012 | [–]

No.JVM GCs (JRockit, Hotspot, IBM) have developed much further than what Smalltalk did. The G1 GC is especially nice.

I found

http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-...

a very interesting - and understandable - article.

agumonkey on March 24, 2012 | [–]

I heard of SELF too.

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