No, he's making the point that the latency introduced by a GC is most important ...

HeyLaughingBoy on June 20, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7

No, he's making the point that the latency introduced by a GC is most important in the case of a hard real-time system. If J2ME isn't one, then using it as an example is specious.