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Understanding Java Garbage
Collection, and what you can do about it

Garbage Collection is an integral part of
application behavior on Java platforms, yet it is
often misunderstood. As such, it is important for
Java developers to understand the actions you can
take in selecting and tuning collector mechanisms, as
well as in your application architecture choices. In
this presentation, Gil Tene (CTO, Azul Systems)
reviews and classifies the various garbage collectors
and collection techniques available in JVMs today.
Following a quick overview of common garbage
collection techniques including generational,
parallel, stop-the-world, incremental, concurrent and
mostly-concurrent algorithms, he defines terms and
metrics common to all collectors. He classifies each
major JVM collector’s mechanisms and characteristics
and discuss the tradeoffs involved in balancing
requirements for responsiveness, throughput, space,
and available memory across varying scale levels. Gil
concludes with some pitfalls, common misconceptions,
and „myths“ around garbage collection behavior, as
well as examples of how some good choices can result
in impressive application behavior.

Biography

Gil Tene is CTO and co-founder of Azul Systems. He
has been involved with virtual machine technologies
for the past 20 years and has been building Java
technology-based products since 1995. Gil pioneered
Azul’s Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector
(C4), Java Virtualization, Elastic Memory, and
various managed runtime and systems stack
technologies that combine to deliver the industry’s
most scalable and robust Java platforms. In 2006 he
was named one of the Top 50 Agenda Setters in the
technology industry by Silicon.com. Prior to
co-founding Azul, Gil held key technology positions
at Nortel Networks, Shasta Networks and at Check
Point Software Technologies, where he delivered
several industry-leading traffic management solutions
including the industry’s first Firewall-1 based
security appliance. He architected operating systems
for Stratus Computer, clustering solutions at
Qualix/Legato, and served as an officer in the
Israeli Navy Computer R and D unit. Gil holds a BSEE
from The Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and
has been awarded 28 patents in computer-related
technologies.