Shenandoah GC in JDK 13, Part 1: Load reference barriers

In this series of articles, I will introduce some new developments of the Shenandoah GC coming up in JDK 13. Perhaps the most significant, although not directly user-visible, change is the switch of Shenandoah’s barrier model to load reference barriers. This change resolves one major point of criticism against Shenandoah—the expensive primitive read-barriers. Here, I’ll explain […] The post Shenandoah GC in JDK 13, Part 1: Load reference barriers appeared first on Red Hat Developer Blog....

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