JEP 439, Generational ZGC, has been promoted from Targeted to Completed for JDK 21. This JEP proposes to improve application performance by extending the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) to maintain separate ...

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.

Generational ZGC is currently not designated for any specific version of standard Java. The current release, JDK 20, arrived a week ago while the next release, JDK 21, is due in September.

Java 21 is here, and it includes many improvements, such as the preview of virtual threads and the final version of the generational ZGC. Most updates in Java are categorized into different named ...

"ZGC has become a highly reliable and predictable garbage collection mechanism for managing huge datasets with minimal latency," Chad Arimura, Oracle's VP of Developer Relations, told me on a Zoom ...

JEP 439: Generational ZGC: Improves application performance by extending the Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) to maintain separate generations for young and old objects.