Showing posts with label permanent generation. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 4

Permanent generation removed from JDK 1.8

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Permanent generation and JDK 1.8 


Breaking News 

Permanent generation will be completely removed from jdk8.0 . Yes there won't be any permanent generation.

So the essential need to tune the performance of permanent generation space will also be eliminated. 

And the data that currently exist in permanent generation will be moved to Java heap or native memory. 

What does currently lie in permanent generation block?

class metadata , intern Strings ,class static variables . And all these will be moved from here to heap or native memory. Thus there will be significcant change in garbage collection mechanism