Shenandoah garbage collection in OpenJDK 16: Concurrent reference processing

The primary motivation behind the Shenandoah garbage collection (GC) project in the OpenJDK was to reduce garbage collection pause times. Reference processing has traditionally been one of the primary contributors to GC pauses. The relationship is mostly linear: The more references the application is churning, the higher is the impact on garbage collection pauses and latency. The key here is "churning," or how many references need to be processed at every GC cycle. The references with referents ...

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