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Because there's no need? There the 'epsilon' no-op GC in OpenJDK: https://openjdk.org/jeps/318

If you keep your object allocation in check you can use this to guarantee no GC pauses.




Yes, but then you are downloading and running executables that contain the GC.


The Java "GC" also contains the memory allocator and handling for out of memory conditions, so if you want to use Java there needs to be 'something' there to call.




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