JEP 248: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector (original) (raw)

Kirk Pepperdine kirk at kodewerk.com
Tue Jun 2 13:47:45 UTC 2015

On Jun 2, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com> wrote:

Perhaps you misunderstood - I'm saying it's sadly true that most apps stress the GC.

Ahh, my bad, I did read that backwards.. my apologies!

As for awareness of GC impact on performance, it's well understood in certain circles, but perhaps not as widely as it should be. Part of that is due to java not having any options other than heap allocation and the other is the GC marketing of "allocations are cheap”.

that marketing is cr at p and I educate against it at every opportunity with real world examples. Collection of recently dead is cheap (something else that I also demo), allocating still comes at cost from a number of directions.. but I digress..

— Kirk

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