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Azul C4 uses a custom kernel extension. It's not really a general purpose GC for user-level apps. (There are kernel-extension-free variations of it, but they suffer from reduced throughput over the HotSpot GC.)


That's true, but for a mobile device, you can control the kernel, it it may be, from a user experience point of view, that reducing pause latency is better than high throughput. I dunno, has anyone ever considered using Azul-like tricks on mobile kernels? Does ARM have the required HW to support it efficiently?

What's FirefoxOS doing for it's GC?




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