Stefan Johansson (Oracle) provides insights on the G1 JVM garbage collector — what’s new, how it impacts performance, and what’s on the roadmap.
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Stefan Johansson (Oracle) provides insights on the G1 JVM garbage collector — what’s new, how it impacts performance, and what’s on the roadmap.

Stefan is a software engineer working in the HotSpot GC-team at Oracle. He joined the GC-team in 2013 and has been active in OpenJDK since then with a focus on the G1 and ZGC garbage collectors. Prior to working with GC in the JVM he was working on other JVM related projects at Oracle/Bea.