Java Garbage Collection remains a topic of major interest even after 25 years. Many developers are still confused about the fundamentals of the topic, even of the most widely-used implementation ...

Plans are afoot to make the G1 server-style garbage collector the default collector for 32- and 64-bit Java server configurations, but there could be complications. As noted in JEP (JDK ...

WebAssembly’s garbage collection extension makes it easier to run languages like Java on the front end. Could it be the start of a new era in web development?

How to force Java garbage collection. While a developer can never actually force Java garbage collection, there are ways to make the JVM prioritize memory management functions. In review, five ways to ...

Secondly, Java uses automated memory management and as such implements a garbage collector (GC). The idea is that programmers don’t need to worry about which memory needs to be freed as the JVM ...

It’s a contrived example, but it puts a load on the JVM and it produces some interesting results in terms of garbage collection and memory performance metrics. There’s a great deal of autoboxing Java ...