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).

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 ...

The Z Garbage Collector, available for production use since JDK 15, is designed for low latency and high scalability. It performs the majority of its work while application threads are running ...

An Oracle-developed, low-latency Java garbage collector geared to large heaps could move to the open source community, if a proposal to do so gets community approval. Votes are due by November 8.

To address the deficiencies of Java GC, a variety of garbage collection algorithms have been created, all of which behave slightly differently. The more developers and sys admins know about Java GC, ...