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).

Documentation describing garbage collection feels like man pages for an aircraft. Every knob and dial is detailed and explained but nowhere can you find a guide on how to fly.

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 ...

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, ...

“Java is kind of stuck in the small memory world because of Java garbage collection. People typically run with small heaps [of 2GB to 4GB],” said Mike Allen, senior director of product ...