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		alexchamberlain on April 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascr... On the to garbage collect or not issue briefly mentioned at the end, the best reason to use an unmanaged language is predictability of performance. You know the GC won't step in at a critical moment. I regularly get frustrated by Eclipse becoming unresponsive for several seconds.

pjmlp on April 14, 2013 [–]

There are real time GCs for many languages that compile to native code.

The way Eclipse is coded is not a good example of GC performance.

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