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Real-time garbage collection isn't an oxymoron. Just try spreading the cost of garbage collection over time so programming languages like Java can suit real-time applications without resorting to a ...

WebAssembly’s garbage collection extension makes it easier to run languages like Java on the front end. Could it be the start of a new era in web development? JavaScript is the clear choice for ...

Oracle Corp. has proposed making the Garbage-First (G1) Collector the default HotSpot garbage collector (GC) in JDK 9 on 32- and 64-bit server configurations, sparking some debate in the Java ...

Terracotta has released to beta a new Java add-on for the Enterprise version of its Ehcache distributed Java caching software designed to free Java applications from the memory and performance ...

GCToolkit parses log files into discrete events and has an API for aggregating data from those events, allowing complex analyses of the state of managed memory in the JVM. Microsoft’s Java Engineering ...

Memory management is central to every program. Dangling pointers due to improper memory management procedures are among the banes of C and C++. Automatic free memory management, or garbage collection, ...