Common wisdom is to avoid the System.gc() command in code and find other ways to configure the JVM's Java garbage collection algorithms to achieve optimal memory management performance. However, it's ...

Memory garbage collection is only one of the applications of reference counting; it is also used for deallocation control of system objects, Windows COM objects, and file system blocks or files.

One of the reasons developers love Java is that the JVM performs garbage collection (GC) for them. One of the reasons system admins hate the JVM is the unpredictable nature of Java GC.A Java GC ...

The emphasis on memory safety extended to the design of the bytecode instruction set and the runtime operation of the JVM, with its checks on array bounds and reference casts and its built-in garbage ...

Automatic free memory management, or garbage collection, is inherent to platforms like Java and Microsoft’s .NET. In the latter, “managed” applications like those written in C# utilize ...

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.