Object Lifetimes Garbage collection algorithms are often optimized with the expectation that most objects live for a very short period of time, while relatively few live for very long. In most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...