Shenandoah

Project Shenandoah has the goal of significantly reducing the pause times with garbage collection operations. The approach is to have more garbage collection operations run concurrently with the Java application. In Chapter 7, Leveraging the New Default G1 Garbage Collector you read about CMS and G1. The Shenandoah project intends to add concurrent compaction to the possible garbage collection approaches.

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