Deep Dive into ZGC: A Modern Garbage Collector in OpenJDK

• Published in: ACM transactions on programming languages and systems Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 1 - 34
• Main Authors: Yang, Albert Mingkun, Wrigstad, Tobias
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY ACM 21.09.2022
• Subjects: Computer Science; Datavetenskap; Garbage collection; Model checking; Software and its engineering; Garbage collection; model checking; SPIN; ZGC

ZGC is a modern, non-generational, region-based, mostly concurrent, parallel, mark-evacuate collector recently added to OpenJDK. It aims at having GC pauses that do not grow as the heap size increases, offering low latency even with large heap sizes. The ZGC C++ source code is readily accessible in...