The way to explore hotspot gc srouce code

Simone Bordet simone.bordet at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 14:44:44 UTC 2021


Hi,

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 3:09 PM Stephen Curry <jsycdut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>    I am new to hotspot source code and I'm really interested in GC implementations of it, but I don't know where to start. Are any suggestions here?
>   Thanks a million.

You want to absolutely read this:
https://shipilev.net/jvm/diy-gc/

Then, the OpenJDK directories are organized per-GC, see:
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/tree/master/src/hotspot/share/gc

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