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SE-Radio-Episode-255:-Monica-Beckwith-on-Java-Garbage-Collection

<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Monica Beckwith joins Robert Blumen
for a discussion of java garbage collection. What is garbage
collection? GC algorithms; history of GC in the java language;
fragmentation and compaction; generational strategies; causes of
pauses; impact of pauses on application performance; tuning GC; GC
on multi-core and large memory machines; should production servers
be implemented in non-GC languages?; going off heap and other
programming techniques to avoid garbage; the future of java GC.</p>

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