JEP 248: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector

[Ben Evans]

>> But TieredCompilation is also much less likely to be the kind of issue
>> that gets noticed. Slightly slower performance during startup is
>> "Meh", longer pause times or visibly decreased throughput is the kind
>> of thing that ops teams pay attention to.
>
> No, it's the opposite problem - startup tended to improve, but peak perf
> suffered noticeable regressions, which is exactly the throughput degradation
> one would notice.

Interesting. I didn't see any events of that type - and I only saw a
couple of the type I alluded to.

Got some links? I'd like to read up on this.

Thanks,

Ben