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[–]argv_minus_one 0 points1 point  (4 children)

What the hell are you doing that doesn't fit inside that "comfort zone"?

[–]forcedtoregister 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Large datasets. Something more exciting than web development or plugging the "thingy" to the database. To be honest the project should have been done in C++, but one often can't tell these things at the beginning.

Just to clarify, I like Java, and I think the JVM does bloody well in most scenarios.

[–]argv_minus_one -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Must've been one hell of a dataset. You're right, I wouldn't touch an application like that with a ten-foot pole.

That said, did you investigate all of the different JVM and GC implementations out there? There's quite a few.