A Brief History Of Garbage Collection
By Brian Goetz
2004-01-22
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Options - And Choices
The 1.3 JDK includes three different garbage collection strategies; the 1.4.1 JDK includes six, and over a dozen command-line options for configuring and tuning garbage collection. How do they differ? Why do we need so many?
The various garbage collection implementations use different strategies for identification and reclamation of unreachable objects, and they interact differently with the user program and scheduler. Different sorts of applications will have different requirements for garbage collection -- real-time applications will demand short and bounded-duration collection pauses, whereas enterprise applications may tolerate longer or less predictable pauses in favor of higher throughput.
First published by IBM developerWorks
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