is there any resource about gc details of hotspot?

Sean Chou zhouyx at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Apr 25 05:43:14 UTC 2011


Hi,
    I think what you want is an overview of GC, wikipedia may help you
better than technical documents.  And IBM developerworks has some
articles for introduction too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_%28computer_science%29
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp10283/


2011/4/25 Li Li <fancyerii at gmail.com>

> hi all,
>   I'd like to learn the detail of each garbage collector such as
> Serial GC, Parallel GC, G1 GC. the basic idea of these algorithm(I
> don't want to read the codes of open jdk now because it's hard to
> understand). such as how they do marking and sweeping, why some of
> them need stopping the world while others can run concurrently with
> java application.
>   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-140228.html
> is the official document. but I need something more detailed. thank
> you.
>



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Best Regards,
Sean Chou
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