The parallel collector has been the default for ages in Java, and the Concurrent Mark Sweep collector, intended for applications that prefer shorter garbage collection pauses, also has been an ...

A proposal floating in the Java community would improve application performance by extending the ZGC (Z Garbage Collector) to maintain separate generations for young and old objects. This would ...

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 ...