JEP proposed to target JDK 11: 318: Epsilon: An Arbitrarily Low-Overhead Garbage Collector

[Stefan Karlsson]

My preferences would be:

1) Use the -XX:+UseNoGC flags, since it more clearly communicates to the 
users that this is not a fully fledged GC.

2) Don't use an alias. GC aliases tend to cause problems for the 
@requires tags in the jtreg tests.

3) Make -XX:+UseNoGC an experimental flag. I think this feature would be 
next to useless if it was only available in debug builds.

Thanks,
StefanK

On 2018-01-11 22:46, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 11:
> 
>    318: Epsilon: An Arbitrarily Low-Overhead Garbage Collector
>         http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/318
> 
> Feedback on this proposal is more than welcome, as are reasoned
> objections.  If no such objections are raised by 23:00 UTC on Thursday,
> 18 January, or if they're raised and then satisfactorily answered, then
> per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [1] I'll target this JEP to JDK 11.
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html
>