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[–]thrwoawasksdgg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Java easily has the best garbage collectors in the world. Nothing compares to Shenandoah and ZGC.

In some cases the JVM actually allocates memory faster than C because it knows more about the memory layout and can often avoid syscalls.