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by keepamovin 16 days ago
x86-64 works on aarch64, which is also planned.

It's a blocking collection but not 'stop the world' (no world, all separate processes). The pause scales about linearly with heap size, as a full mark-and-sweep should:

  ┌──────────────────┬─────────────┐
  │       heap       │ worst pause │
  ├──────────────────┼─────────────┤
  │ 2MB              │ 0.10 ms     │
  ├──────────────────┼─────────────┤
  │ 8MB (production) │ 0.66 ms     │
  ├──────────────────┼─────────────┤
  │ 32MB             │ 2.47 ms     │
  └──────────────────┴─────────────┘