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Garbage collection certainly doesn’t sound like a particularly enticing subject, given that most associate it with dragging cans out to the sidewalk once a week. But garbage collection is an important ...

As members of the Garbage Collector Group of the HotSpot Virtual Machine Development Team, John Coomes and Tony Printezis have the credentials for presenting “The Garbage Collection Mythbusters” at ...

One of the most important aspects of the Java programming environment that make it especially appropriate for development of complex high-availability system software is automatic garbage collection, ...