Doesn't garbage collection cause distracting hitches?

"bp2008" wrote:
For a while now I've been wondering about the effect of the C#/Mono/.NET or Java garbage collectors on VR games. Garbage collectors are well known to cause hitching and stuttering in games.

For Java anyway, it depends a great deal on how much memory management you're doing. For applications that aren't running near the edge of the performance envelope, there's not really an issue. GC happens frequently on background threads that have little. If you're doing something that's consuming and releasing large amounts of memory on every frame, you might have an issue, but then again, if you did that, you might have an issue in a non GC language just as easily.