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.

But with no way in 2002 to prevent sun.misc.Unsafe from being used outside the JDK, its memory access methods became a “Swiss Army knife” for library developers who wanted more power and ...

Azure jaz: Automatic memory and startup optimization for Java in the cloud The new Microsoft tool for the Azure cloud aims to improve launch times for Java applications and thus reduce cloud costs.

Feb 29, 2024 11:03:00 White House recommends developers move from C++ and C to memory-safe programming languages such as Rust and Java ...