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G1GC for dozens of GB, Azul (for now) for hundreds and in the future there'll be Shenandoah.

You're right that those features provided by hotspot. But it is the reference implementation for the JVM after all.

The point remains that the java ecosystem - which includes tooling like eclipse/netbeans/yourkit and JVM implementations - provides the things I've listed that I find lacking in ruby.




But by the same measure, JRuby is part of the Ruby ecosystem.




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