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		kev009 on May 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: For Better Computing, Liberate CPUs from Garbage C... IBM POWER, Z, and Oracle SPARC silicon have instructions designed explicitly for GC and other common managed runtime tasks.

fjeremic on May 9, 2019 [–]

Indeed, OpenJ9's Pause-less GC is implemented using IBM z14 guarded load instructions and is able to outperform software by 10x in pause times and 3.4x in throughput for a given SLA [1].

[1] https://blog.openj9.org/2019/03/25/concurrent-scavenge-garba...

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