Java Garbage Collection remains a topic of major interest even after 25 years. Many developers are still confused about the fundamentals, even of the most widely-used implementation (Parallel).

Java’s garbage collection algorithm is one of the more sophisticated options available, which is why Google implemented Googe Sheets in Java. Now, Google wants to take things a step further, by ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia , Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Excelsior LLC, a well-established vendor of compliant Java SE technology implementations, has shipped today the newest version of its flagship product ...

Real-time garbage collection isn't an oxymoron. Just try spreading the cost of garbage collection over time so programming languages like Java can suit real-time applications without resorting to ...

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 ...

The limit on the size of JVMs imposed by GC has long been a major challenge for Enterprise Java apps. Anne MacFarland, senior contributing analyst at the Clipper Group, called the addon "a step ...

For example, if an application overzealously allocates instances, the garbage collector (GC) will be forced into action when object references go out of scope. Increasingly frequent GC cycles will not ...

Learn how to optimize JVM and JIT compiler performance for better execution speed, memory usage, and resource utilization in your Java applications—and how to check your results.

I am curious about the behavior of Sun JRE (Java 5 and up) WRT GC.Suppose the following bit of code describes the behavior of the code I am writingpublic void someFunction() { // VeryBigObject ...

The limit on the size of JVMs imposed by GC has long been a major challenge for Enterprise Java apps. Anne MacFarland, senior contributing analyst at the Clipper Group, called the add-on "a step ...