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9d ago
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Minecraft for somewhat silly reasons was largely stuck using Java8 for ~a decade longer than it should have which meant that it was using some fairly outdated GC algorithms.
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NooneAtAll3
9d ago
"silly reasons" being Java breaking backwards compatibility
decade seems a usual timescale for that, considering f.e. python 2->3
kbolino
9d ago
So much software was stuck on Java 8 and for so long that some of the better GC algorithms got backported to it.
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