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>You (or the papers) are comparing different implementations of programs in different languages.

Fyi... the 2nd paper is using the same language of Java. It just compares different allocation strategies: explicit vs GC. (I think that paper is written in a confusing way.)

My original point back to op (rwmj) was that the computer scientists were quite aware that malloc had a non-zero cost. And pointing that out really doesn't challenge the paper's findings.



Yeah, and the second paper said their GC scenario system was swapping to disk. Please read my edit to the previous comment.




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