Episode 24 “Towards Generational ZGC!”
Posted on June 29, 2022
In this episode, David talks with Erik Österlund about the work he did on the Z Garbage Collector, and the plans to make ZGC a Generational GC. Amongst other things, Erik shares some details on the underlying techniques, and the expected benefits.
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Resources
- JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing
- JEP 377: ZGC: A Scalable Low-Latency Garbage Collector (Production)
- ZGC Wiki
- HotSpot GC Tuning Guide - The Z Garbage Collector
- zgc-dev mailing list
Additional resources
- Dev.java : The Destination for Java Developers
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