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by avogadro 3123 days ago
> Yes -- five times as much RAM: http://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

That article was presented at OOPSLA '05 which ran from October 16–20, 2005. I don't know when it was written, nor when the data for it was worked out. That said, it seems safe to say that it's more than twelve years out of date.