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.