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by jacaetevha 5192 days ago
And (IIRC) much of the JVM's GC and VM work came directly from the Smalltalk world and the Strongtalk guys.
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No.JVM GCs (JRockit, Hotspot, IBM) have developed much further than what Smalltalk did. The G1 GC is especially nice.

I found

http://blog.dynatrace.com/2011/05/11/how-garbage-collection-...

a very interesting - and understandable - article.

I heard of SELF too.