G1 now the default in JDK 9

[Richard Kolb]

Hi Mani,

That's great news. It's a long time in coming.

It would be nice to see an updated benchmark on collectors in Java,
especially with all the improvements to G1 in Java 8 update 40 and Java 9.

Here is an old one
<http://blog.mgm-tp.com/2013/12/benchmarking-g1-and-other-java-7-garbage-collectors/>
.

regards,
Richard.


On 2 July 2015 at 04:45, Mani Sarkar <sadhak001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI - to all those who case about G1GC.
>
> Cheers,
> Mani
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stefan Johansson <stefan.johansson at oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:14 AM
> Subject: G1 now the default in JDK 9
> To: "jdk9-dev at openjdk.java.net" <jdk9-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> A short heads up. The change to make G1 the default garbage collector has
> now made its way to jdk9/dev [1] and should soon be part of a JDK 9 early
> access build.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/hotspot/rev/d472d1331479
>
>
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