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The Java shops you're thinking of didn't disable GC during working hours, they just sized the generations to avoid a collection given their normal allocation rates.

But there were / are also plenty of trading shops that paid Azul for their pauseless C4 GC. Nowadays there's also ZGC and Shenandoah, so if you want to both allocate a lot and also not have pauses, that tech is no longer expensive.

The Java shops you're thinking of didn't disable GC during working hours, they just sized the generations to avoid a collection given their normal allocation rates.

Well, I just trivialized it. However, in one case in mid 00s, I saw it disabled completely to avoid any pauses during trading hours.

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