Generational Z Garbage Collector would lower garbage collection CPU overhead, lower heap memory overhead, and reduce the risk of allocations stalls, OpenJDK proposal says. A proposal floating in ...

This helps keep general heap overhead down. Some of the work from the ZGC project already has found a use case elsewhere, including an atomics rewrite and a garbage-collection barrier API.

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).

Monitor and Adapt: Use tools like VisualVM or Java Mission Control to keep an eye on your app's garbage collection metrics. These tools provide live data on heap usage and GC pauses, which is ...