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by symbolicAGI 358 days ago
Learned from an NYC exchange 10 years ago that Java can be written so as to not use garbage collection. Fast and no pause for GC.

1. Resource and reuse objects that otherwise are garbage collected. Use `new` sparingly.

2. Avoid Java idioms that create garbage, e.g. for (String s : strings) {...}, substitute with (int i = 0, strings_len = strings.length(), i < strings_len) { String s = strings[i]; ...}