Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use. They may also ...

In order to understand garbage collection and the various GC approaches and algorithms, you must first know a few things about the Java platform’s memory model. JVM performance optimization ...

See my article “Advanced Memory Allocation” [LJ, May 2003] for details on these hooks. With this method, any heap allocation is guaranteed to go through libgc, even if it is not performed directly by ...

JVM technology evangelist Eva Andreasson gives an overview of the Java virtual machine, including the pros and cons of Java's write-once, run-anywhere engine, garbage collection basics, and a ...