The Z Garbage Collector by Erik Österlund

Subscribe to Devoxx on YouTube @ https://bit.ly/devoxx-youtube Like Devoxx on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/devoxxcom Follow Devoxx on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/devoxx The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC) is a new JDK garbage collector designed for low latency and high scalability. For an industry-standard latency-sensitive benchmark it achieves throughput over 36% higher than the existing JDK collectors while never exceeding a maximum pause time of two milliseconds. In this session we’ll explain how ZGC achieves this performance, and show how to use it. Erik Österlund From Oracle Erik is a member of the HotSpot Garbage Collection team at Oracle who has been working on HotSpot for over five years. He is an OpenJDK Reviewer, and a contributor to the ZGC project.