Oracle Corp. has proposed making the Garbage-First (G1) Collector the default HotSpot garbage collector (GC) in JDK 9 on 32- and 64-bit server configurations, sparking some debate in the Java ...

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G1 garbage collector improvement would also reduce the overhead of the JDK’s C2 optimizing compiler, benefiting cloud-based Java deployments. A change to Java’s G1 garbage collector would lower the ...

Plans are afoot to make the G1 server-style garbage collector the default collector for 32- and 64-bit Java server configurations, but there could be complications. As noted in JEP (JDK Enhancement ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. As part of JEP-291, the popular Concurrent Mark Sweep garbage collection algorithm has been ...

As heap utilization approaches 100% and the inevitable OutOfMemoryError threatens to crash the production JVM, DevOps professionals who tend real-time Java ...