Chapter 4
The Unified Java Virtual Machine Logging Interface
The Java HotSpot Virtual Machine (VM) is a treasure trove of features and flexibility. Command-line options allow for enabling its experimental or diagnostic features and exploring various VM and garbage collection activities. Within the HotSpot VM, there are distinct builds tailored for different purposes. The primary version is the product build, optimized for performance and used in production environments. In addition, there are debug builds, which include the fast-debug and the slow-debug variants.
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The asserts-enabled fast-debug build offers additional debugging capabilities with minimal performance overhead, making it suitable for development environments where some level ...
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