CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Eden, and the hundreds of JVM start-up flags... does this all baffle you when trying to tune the garbage collector to get the required throughput and latency from ...

Garbage collection certainly doesn’t sound like a particularly enticing subject, given that most associate it with dragging cans out to the sidewalk once a week. But garbage collection is an important ...

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Generational Z Garbage Collector would lower garbage collection CPU overhead, lower heap memory overhead, and reduce the risk of allocations stalls, OpenJDK proposal says. A proposal floating in the ...

One of the most important aspects of the Java programming environment that make it especially appropriate for development of complex high-availability system software is automatic garbage collection, ...

As members of the Garbage Collector Group of the HotSpot Virtual Machine Development Team, John Coomes and Tony Printezis have the credentials for presenting “The Garbage Collection Mythbusters” at ...