more from yesterday

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Fredrik Öhrström
<fredrik.ohrstrom at oracle.com> wrote:
> Thread local garbage collection is a JRockit bleeding edge feature that
> allow separate threads in a Java server to have their own heap. There is
> of course also a global heap to which shared objects are relocated to.
> One important benefit is that these heaps can be garbage collected
> independently from each other. If a gc is triggered in a local heap
> after a few transactions, then theoretically no transaction will be
> paused half way through because of a garbage collect. It is relevant for
> large servers with many cores and for businesses with very strict
> requirements on response times for transactions.

I was not aware JRockit had this in any form. This is very exciting :)

Is it possible to try it right now?

- Charlie