[dudenewcomb]

www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/gcvsmalloc.pdf

"In particular, when garbage collection has five times as much memory as required, its runtime performance matches or slightly exceeds that of explicit memory management."

Yep. Like most problems in life, it's 'solved' if you have the money.

[jules]

That's talking about throughput. Getting good pause times and good throughput is still hard. Even if you have 100x as much memory, you still get the same pause times (albeit less frequently).