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Production garbage collectors make substantial compromises in pursuit of reduced pause times. They require far more CPU cycles and memory than prior simpler collectors. concurrent copying collectors (C4, ZGC, and Shenandoah) suffer from the…

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Erasure coding is a storage-efficient alternative to replication for achieving reliable data backup in distributed storage systems. During the storage process, traditional erasure codes require a unique source node to create and upload all…

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in 3D reconstruction, achieving high-quality results with real-time radiance field rendering. However, a key challenge is the substantial storage cost: reconstructing a…

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