"This change, if it proceeds, will stop a large swathe of troubleshooting and monitoring tools from working on JVMs (without having to first restart them with an option change)"
"Allocation rates of around 10GB/s is the maximum that the majority of machines can sustain - regardless of core counts. And at that rate it dominates CPU. Four threads allocating is already enough to hit the highest per-thread allocation rate possible on many systems. The L3 cache is the limiting factor"