SE-Radio-Episode-255:-Monica-Beckwith-on-Java-Garbage-Collection

SE-Radio-Episode-255:-Monica-Beckwith-on-Java-Garbage-Collection

By SE-Radio Team

Monica Beckwith joins Robert Blumen for a discussion of java garbage collection. What is garbage collection? GC algorithms; history of GC in the java language; fragmentation and compaction; generational strategies; causes of pauses; impact of pauses on application performance; tuning GC; GC on multi-core and large memory machines; should production servers be implemented in non-GC languages?; going off heap and other programming techniques to avoid garbage; the future of java GC.

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