CFV: New Project: ZGC

[Thomas Schatzl]

Vote: yes

Thomas

> On 2017-10-25 21:45, Per Liden wrote:
> > I hereby propose the creation of the ZGC Project with myself (Per 
> > Liden) as the Lead and the HotSpot Group as the sponsoring Group.
> > 
> > In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project will 
> > provide a home for the continued development of the Z Garbage 
> > Collector, also known as ZGC. ZGC is a new garbage collector
> > optimized for low latency and very large heaps. We've developed ZGC
> > internally at Oracle so far, and we're now open-sourcing it so as
> > to broaden the base of both contributors and users.
> > 
> > ZGC has been designed with the following goals in mind:
> > * Handle multi-terabyte heaps
> > * GC pause times not exceeding 10ms
> > * No more than 15% application throughput reduction compared to
> > using G1

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