Promotion
Promotion is the act of moving an object reference to a different, more permanent, area of memory. The term is used, for example, both for moving objects from a Thread Local Area (TLA) to the heap and from a younger generation to an older generation on the heap.
See also Generational garbage collection and Thread local area.
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