Comment by adgjlsfhk1
9 hours ago
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was largely stuck using Java8 for ~a decade longer than it should have which meant that it was using some fairly outdated GC algorithms.
9 hours ago
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was largely stuck using Java8 for ~a decade longer than it should have which meant that it was using some fairly outdated GC algorithms.
So much software was stuck on Java 8 and for so long that some of the better GC algorithms got backported to it anyway.
"silly reasons" being Java breaking backwards compatibility
decade seems a usual timescale for that, considering f.e. python 2->3