Are There Any Disadvantages Of Garbage Collection?

1.	Are There Any Disadvantages Of Garbage Collection?
Answer» Yes. Whenever the garbage collector runs, it has an effect on the application’s performance. This is because all other threads in the application have to be stopped to allow the garbage collector thread to effectively do its work. Depending on the REQUIREMENTS of the application, this can be a REAL problem that is unacceptable by the client. However, this problem can be GREATLY reduced or even eliminated through skillful optimization and garbage collector tuning and using different GC algorithms.

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Yes. Whenever the garbage collector runs, it has an effect on the application’s performance. This is because all other threads in the application have to be stopped to allow the garbage collector thread to effectively do its work.
Depending on the REQUIREMENTS of the application, this can be a REAL problem that is unacceptable by the client. However, this problem can be GREATLY reduced or even eliminated through skillful optimization and garbage collector tuning and using different GC algorithms.

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