The Z Garbage Collector: In JDK 25 - Paperback

by Erik Österlund (Author)

This book explains how the Z Garbage Collector was designed, why it was designed this way, the common pitfalls to avoid when using ZGC in JDK 25 and how to get useful information from the garbage collector.

With a unique angle right between academia and industry, it is useful for computer science students and Java developers alike.

Author Biography

Erik Österlund did his BSc, MSc and PhD at the Linnaeus University, Sweden, where his interests and thesis work were all focused on garbage collection. At a memory management conference in Beijing 2012, Erik met Jesper Wilhelmsson from an Oracle development office in Stockholm. They were both surprised to find two Swedes in Beijing, interested in memory management. One thing led to another, and a research internship was arranged. There, Erik was talking about how a concurrent GC algorithm was needed. In 2016, Erik joined Oracle and started working on ZGC, and has been one of the core ZGC developers ever since.