JEP 248: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Fri Jun 5 14:37:25 UTC 2015


2015/6/5 5:12 -0700, stefan.johansson at oracle.com:
> Mark, I've extended second item as follows:
> 
>    - G1 is seen as a robust and well-tested collector. It is not expected
>      to have stability problems, but becoming the default collector will
>      increase its visibility and may reveal previously-unknown issues. If
>      a critical issue is found that can't be addressed in the JDK 9 time
>      frame, we will revert back to use Parallel GC as the default for the
>      JDK 9 GA.

Looks good, thanks!

- Mark


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