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Collectors like Sun's G1 use many generations (or zones); the nursery is just the set of zones into which they're currently allocating. | Collectors like Sun's G1 use many generations (or zones); the nursery is just the set of zones into which they're currently allocating. | ||
Note: generational collection will not necessarily make GC pause times any shorter. To fix this, we could make parts of the collector incremental or | Note: generational collection will not necessarily make GC pause times any shorter. To fix this, we could make parts of the collector incremental or parallel. We would also have to look at the cycle collector as well. I don't yet have a good understanding of this code. | ||
= Pinning = | = Pinning = | ||