Episode 24 “Towards Generational ZGC!”

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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Show Notes

• 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

• OpenJDK

• Oracle Java