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by sa1 2230 days ago
> have average pause times of 0.3 milliseconds on heaps less than 4GB

The answer is that one user thread would have a lot less memory than 4GB, and the GC only needs to work on heap sizes of KBs to MBs for most cases.

There is no shared memory(well, mostly).

It's comparing apples and oranges.