A New Age of JVM Garbage Collectors
Alexander Yakushev at Clojure/conj 2019
Some programmers might think that garbage collection is a solved problem. It runs with the VM and takes care of your unused objects – what else would you want? However, the recent spike of interest in new garbage collectors for JVM (Shenandoah, ZGC) and beyond (Go GC) shows that there are still possibilities for improvement. In this talk, we will briefly walk through the history of memory management and discover what the modern GCs can do for you.