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Comment by adgjlsfhk1

8 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was largely stuck using Java8 for ~a decade longer than it should have which meant that it was using some fairly outdated GC algorithms.

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NooneAtAll3  1 hour ago

"silly reasons" being Java breaking backwards compatibility

decade seems a usual timescale for that, considering f.e. python 2->3

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