The G1 garbage collector
June 29th, 2009
The G1 garbage collector has been made available in the 1.6_14 release of Sun’s JDK. There was some controversy initially when this was released due to some wording in the license, but the wording has since been updated. Sun was trying to indicate that no support would be provided for the G1 garbage collector, yet it initially came across that you could not even use it unless you had a paid support contract (you can read more about the licensing changes here).
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