Understanding garbage collection in Java, Part 1: Stages and levels of garbage collection

2 · Red Hat · Aug. 20, 2021, 3:23 p.m.
Garbage collection is one of the great benefits of a high-level language. Garbage collection saves programmers from doing a lot of housekeeping, and it helps prevent the very serious errors that can arise from that housekeeping. However, garbage collection is performed by a background thread running at unpredictable times and can force the application to slow down or pause. One of the most important aspects of performance in a production application is choosing the right garbage collector and co...