Is it worth installing this mod anyway?

[TheCrossCarrier]

Is it worth installing this mod if I allocate 12GB of memory for Minecraft (16GB on the system), and I don’t see that memory is a performance bottleneck?

[mainrs]

Is it worth installing this mod if I allocate 12GB of memory for Minecraft (16GB on the system), and I don’t see that memory is a performance bottleneck?

Allocating too much memory is counterproductive. 12GB is for almost all modpacks too much. You're better of installing the mod, yes. It reduces the base line RAM usage. The less RAM Minecraft uses, the faster the garbage collection will be, generally speaking. However, you don't really need the mod if you're running lightweight mod packs. It's nice to install it for systems that don't have 16GB+ RAM available.

Garbage collection is the process that is responsible for freeing unused memory in the game. However, the more RAM you allocate, the more memory the garbage collection has to scan and decide if it can be freed. Generally speaking, during garbage collection, the game does not run; the whole process is frozen. Usually this manifests as lag spikes once the RAM is ~90% full. You can clearly see this behavior if you press F3 and monitor the RAM usage.