SE-Radio-Episode-255:-Monica-Beckwith-on-Java-Garbage-Collection

Monica Beckwith joins Robert Blumen for a discussion of java
garbage collection. What is garbage collection? GC algorithms;
history of GC in the java language; fragmentation and compaction;
generational strategies; causes of pauses; impact of pauses on
application performance; tuning GC; GC on multi-core and large
memory machines; should production servers be implemented in
non-GC languages?; going off heap and other programming
techniques to avoid garbage; the future of java GC.