Key Takeaways

The generational hypothesis is key to efficient modern garbage collection

HotSpot counts the number of collections an object has survived to implement generational GC

The Parallel collector is still the most widely used Java GC

Algorithmic complexity of GC is difficult to reason about concisely

Compacting collectors (like ParallelOld) behave completely differently to in-place collectors

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