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by 6figurelenins 1246 days ago
> you're really wasting a lot of cpu cycles on building up the garbage collector.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of JIT compiling? The context where I think of "warmup" is (say) Java, where the runtime profiles hot paths to emit optimized machine code.

What would it even mean to "build up" a GC?