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by spooneybarger 3067 days ago
There's an excellent paper on GC pauses and its impact on Spark and Hadoop. "Trash Day" => https://www.usenix.org/node/189882
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Sure, I understand pauses happen and there is a performance degradation, I'm asking whether it really matters in a processing framework that isn't controlling medical equipment or airline hydraulics. Is something going to break if there's a small pause? Especially in return for the productivity and safety of using managed runtimes?