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by da_big_ghey 1959 days ago
Hah, I remember reading a comment a while back about a HFT firm. The guys there wanted to use Java but couldn't deal with GC latency spikes, so they just bought a ton of ram, turned off the GC, and re-booted the servers every day.

>> Isn't segfault a pretty healthy outcome to program?

Found the Erlang user.