DevNation 2015 - Christine Flood - Shenandoah: An ultra-low pause time garbage collector for OpenJDK

Shenandoah is the next step in OpenJDK garbage collection innovation. This long-overdue garbage collector pushes more of the work into concurrent threads, which substantially decreases pause times for your Java applications. As a result, you’re able to make better quality-of-service guarantees. In this session, we will take a thorough look at how Shenandoah works and the performance benefits you can anticipate from this new garbage collector.