June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 50m
English
There are several different collector types of the GC. These types are also known as strategies and they are, in turn, realized by different implementations depending on the JVM manufacturer. Today, many different implementations exist and these are mixtures of the basic strategies. First, let's have a look at most common strategies of the Hotspot VM:
It should be noted that, within a strategy, different GC algorithms can be enabled for the young generation and the old generation, respectively—all to optimize memory management and performance.
The serial collector performs garbage collection using a single ...