Shenandoah

Roman Kennke rkennke at redhat.com
Tue Jul 9 22:02:39 UTC 2019


> Hi Keith,
> 
>> Just curios…. How did you guys come up with the name Shenandoah GC?
> 
> The story that I heard from Christine goes something like this.
> 
> - I've got this idea to make a pauseless GC. How shall I name it? Uhm,
> maybe 'pauseless GC' -> PGC
> - This is a little bit boring and possibly confusing with something like
> 'parallel GC' too so...
> - PGC turns out to be the airport code of Petersburg/West Virginia
> - which is somewhere close to the Shenandoah valley
> 
> I am not 100% sure this is correct.
> 

What I always found notable is that when you google 'Shenandoah garbage
collection' you would actually find information about garbage collection
in Shenandoah county.

Alternatively, there are at least two golf clubs in Shenandoah county
that also show up on 'Shenandoah GC' searches :-)

Roman





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