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by pron 1180 days ago
The JVM has a selection of four generational GCs. Two of them are the most sophisticated GCs available anywhere.

It's not a matter of some unique brilliance. Java is simply in such high demand that it has the sufficient resources to have state of the art optimising compilers and GCs.

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Really? I had no idea. Can you suggest further reading?