[cap-talk] Dan Bernstein's qmail security lessons paper

[Tony Finch]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Sandro Magi wrote:
>
> The only real performance bottlenecks for garbage collected languages
> are tight heaps as found in small devices, and large heaps with virtual
> memory where tracing causes thrashing.

The other problem is concurrency. Java assumes lots of cross-thread
sharing, so the standard library tends to be rather heavily locked
(causing lots of synchronization overhead), and the GC has to be rather
more complicated than Erlang's per-process heaps or E's vats.

Tony.
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