I think the cassandra team did not re-implement their own GC. I guess what they meant is the less heap being used, the better GC performance.
AFAIK, only data that is not been updated frequently can benefit from off-heap row cache, because when a row is modified, the row inside cache need be invalidated. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote: > this comment in JIRA mentions it > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1969?focusedCommentId=12985038&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12985038 > > but in the end, it's not immediately clear. could someone give a > summary of its advantages? > (if it's just re-implement your own GC, why would your own GC be better?) > > Thanks > Yang >
