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HowagarbagecollectorworksofJavaLanguage

Ifyoucomefromaprogramminglanguagewhereallocatingobjectson

theheapisexpensive,youmaynaturallyassumethatJava’sschemeof

allocatingeverything(exceptprimitives)ontheheapisalsoexpensive.

However,itturnsoutthatthegarbagecollectorcanhaveasignificant

oddatfirst—thatstoragereleaseaffectsstorageallocation—butit’sthe

waysomeJVMswork,anditmeansthatallocatingstorageforheap

otherlanguages.

Forexample,youcanthinkoftheC++heapasayardwhereeach

stakesoutitsownpieceofturfobject.Thisrealestatecanbecome

abandonedsometimelaterandmustbereused.InsomeJVMs,theJava

everytimeyouallocateanewobject.Thismeansthatobjectstorage

allocationisremarkablyrapid.The“heappointer”issimplymoved

it’snothinglikesearchingforstorage.)

Youmightobservethattheheapisn’tinfactaconveyorbelt,andif

youtreatitthatway,you’llstartpagingmemory—movingitonandoff

disk,sothatyoucanappeartohavemorememorythanyouactuallydo.

Pagingsignificantlyimpactsperformance.Eventually,afteryoucreate

collectorstepsin,andwhileitcollectsthegarbageitcompactsallthe

fault.Thegarbagecollectorrearrangesthingsandmakesitpossiblefor

thehigh-speed,infinite-free-heapmodeltobeusedwhileallocating

storage.

TounderstandgarbagecollectioninJava,it’shelpfullearnhow

garbage-collectionschemesworkinothersystems.Asimplebutslow

eachobjectcontainsareferencecounter,andeverytimeareferenceis

attachedtothatobject,thereferencecountisincreased.Everytimea

referencegoesoutofscopeorissettonull,thereferencecountis

1

decreased.Thus,managingreferencecountsisasmallbutconstant

overheadthathappensthroughoutthelifetimeofyourprogram.The

garbagecollectormovesthroughtheentirelistofobjects,andwhenit

Locatingsuchself-referentialgr