[nsuser3]

> also allow some higher-but-not-peak intensity software to be written with GC where it might not be today (games come to mind), although that could actually encourage more energy usage than what it would save.

Just look at Minecraft for that (it's written in Java). A recent version created up to 200 MB of garbage per second!

[VLM]

Definitely a problem with modded minecraft. One weird solution to the problem is due to some design decisions its pragmatically single core because there's a primary loop that does 99% of the work, freeing up plenty of cores to do side issues and garbage collection.